the longer we procrastinate in moving a supplemental appropriation for this Community Development Block Grant program, f...
If we give some of our Federal workers a raise, we might be able to keep them around a little bit longer.
this is not about property, this is about lives.
The three problems or areas I see that are the most frustrating: One is speed, the speed in which things are getting don...
How do I get people $33,000 very fast?
The relief that our citizens want and the relief that they need and the relief that they deserve is tied up in red tape.
We've got to work to get it right.
What we're saying is we want to mitigate in a very smart way, which is, if we do our Comite project and other things, we...
But then we've got to make sure that our response from Washington is targeted on responding to this storm in the most ef...
And, most essentially, we need that $2 billion Community Development Block Grant program so that we can try to go in and...
What do we tell those people? Is the Stafford Act sufficient to respond to this disaster?
We got together and rescued our own people. We did it.
It is absolutely unacceptable to think that we're going to find a way to charity ourselves out of this thing.
There is this unbelievable perception out there that the cost of inaction is free.
I appreciate the fact that Chairman Chaffetz was here. And I also want to thank Congressman Richmond and Congressman Gra...
I also believe that it is critically important to address the social service needs of Louisiana families...
I'm also asking Congress to clear the $724 million backlog of Federal Highway Administration emergency relief funding.
I'm calling on Congress, respectfully requesting Congress to support a supplemental appropriation of $2 billion for Comm...
