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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A House of Representatives panel said on Friday it would hold hearings on the government's response to Hurricane Katrina as plans for a Republican-led joint Senate-House inquiry stalled. House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, said the first hearing on the widely criticized response to the disaster would be on Thursday. "It has become increasingly clear that local, state and federal government agencies failed to meet the needs...