Political Quotes

“in some ways, I hate to come to the floor and talk about this because I very seldom do, but I am announcing to all my colleagues and to the administration that I am putting a hold on all Treasury Department nominations until I get something resolved. Let me back up and tell the story. Some of my colleagues are familiar with this story because this has come up a few times before and I have already spoken on the floor a couple times about this and certainly in the Homeland Security Committee I have spoken about this. A few years ago, in Arkansas, we had some floods. In this one particular area around Mountain View, AR, some people's houses were flooded. FEMA came in. In one particular case--in the Guglielmanas case, which is a family there--they talked to this couple. They are on Social Security. They talked to this couple about how they are entitled to some FEMA recovery money to repair their home. FEMA was actually in the home, took pictures, helped them fill out the paperwork, walked them through the entire process, and they ended up getting $27,000 in FEMA money for disaster recovery. The Guglielmanas did everything absolutely by the book. They followed all of FEMA's directions. They did it picture perfect, exactly the way we would think all citizens should conduct their business. Then, 3 years later, they got a notice in the mail and FEMA said: Oh, we messed up.…”