Following the landfall of the monstrous Category 4 Hurricane Ida into Louisiana, a bipartisan delegation of U.S. representatives and senators from Louisiana have sent a request to President Joe Biden for disaster relief funding. The delegation—consisting of Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Reps. Clay Higgins (R-La.), Steve Scalise (R-La.), Mike Johnson (R-La.), Garret Graves (R-La.), Julia Letlow (R-La.) and Troy Carter (D-La.)—wrote the letter, says Kennedy on his Senate website, to alert the president “to the need for disaster relief funds to help Louisiana recover from historic storm damage.” The letter from the Louisiana delegation opens with a comparison of Hurricane Ida to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This storm, it notes, was worse than Katrina: “Hurricane Katrina was a Category 3 storm with 125 mph winds when it struck Louisiana’s coast 16 years ago. Conversely, Hurricane Ida had sustained winds of 150 mph when it made …