Representatives of the F.D.A., and the Florida attorney general, who led the states' effort, declined requests for phone interviews.
Speaking at a briefing in Houston on Monday, Kent Wells, a BP executive involved in the containment effort, declined to estimate the total flow and how much it might have increased.
In response, feeding effort declined across all three habitats.
A spokesperson for the presidential inauguration committee, which manages the effort, declined to comment on the pace of fundraising so far.
Grant, to bolster the repeal effort, declined to make any new appointments except for vacancies, until the law was overturned, thus, agitating political office seekers to pressure Congress to repeal the law.
Mr. Ross, citing regulations that prevent him from speaking about fund-raising efforts, declined to speak about his new fund.
Mr. Reed, now a senior strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's political efforts, declined to discuss Hope, Growth and Opportunity.
The companies involved in the rescue efforts declined to say how many of the signals came from nearby cellphone users and how many could have come from within the rubble of the towers.
During the 1927 flood, President Calvin Coolidge designated Herbert Hoover, his Secretary of Commerce, to head flood-relief efforts, declining to get personally involved or even to visit the flood zone despite a national clamor that he do so.
