  Working from the emergency spending request President Barack
Obama made five days ago, the Senate Appropriations Committee
released its draft of the legislation.  While the proposal calls
for $60.4 billion, the Congressional Budget Office estimates
that only about $9 billion in Obama's request would be spent
over the next nine months. An additional $12 billion would be
spent the following year.       "We need to look and see what
the real numbers are," said Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., a member
of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative
Republicans. "We have had a tragic storm and we need to figure
out how to help, but I don't know yet what the actual number
should be."   Coburn said there was significant waste, fraud and
abuse in federal spending related to Hurricane Katrina recovery
and he doesn't want the same thing to happen if Sandy aid is
rushed through Congress.  "They're throwing things to see what
will stick to the wall," Coburn said. "Instead, we ought to be
asking hard questions."