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Jerry Nadler
@jerrynadler· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

If there is not consequences to this type of hate speech against Jews, you are only going to get more of it.

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

This is spiraling out of control, and it could be a major, major humanitarian crisis.

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Paul Tonko
@paultonko· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 194, noes 182, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 54…

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

I think local law enforcement is also well equipped to let us know here in Washington where the hot spots--how we can spend the money and how we can save lives.

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for this opportunity to speak. I thank Representative Clyburn for allowing me a few minutes to address a pressing issue before he assumes control of this Special Order hour. Last week, the President of the United…

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Madam Chair, let me just stress again the importance of these initiatives and the ability for municipalities to be able to determine where to spend the funding, and they get a fair share of funding to install bollards and other strategies…

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Are we going to allow the Venezuelan people to starve to death?

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Adriano Espaillat
@adrianoespaillat· Democratic · NY· Apr 8, 2019

The effects of climate change are evident today in more extreme temperatures, and more frequent and more intense natural disasters.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

We should use every disaster as an opportunity to learn and improve our mitigation capabilities to decrease the loss of life and damage to our homes and infrastructure.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Pre-disaster mitigation has the potential to limit the negative effects of natural disasters.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

I will submit every question to you if okay with you regarding CFIUS and China.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

I think there is bipartisan support for those grants.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

But pre-disaster mitigation has the potential to limit the negative effects of natural disasters.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Mitigation activities include upgrading and strengthening existing structures from all hazards, identifying sustainable flood and erosion control projects, purchasing hurricane shutters to resist wind, and managing vegetation to reduce…

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

The bottom line is, from the wildfires on the West Coast and tornadoes in the South to the hurricanes along the eastern seaboard of the United States, no area of the country is immune to the devastating effects of natural disasters.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

Unfortunately, our focus on emergency preparedness oftentimes occurs in the aftermath of a natural disaster, which is too late.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

I do hope that, as we go forward, we realize that our main goal as a committee, our main purpose from the genesis was to focus on terrorism.

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Peter King
@peterking· Republican · NY· Apr 8, 2019

In fact, I guess beginning in the last year of the Obama administration, unfortunately all 3 years of the Trump administration, their budget has called for really radical, severe cuts in those grants.

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