Political Quotes

“without going over all the details of the earthquake, everybody who read this morning's newspapers knows that the earthquake has been upgraded in severity--from 6.6 to 6.8 in magnitude--so that the energy released from the quake is 1rac{1}{2} imes more than the original estimate. It was a serious quake. It moved buildings vertically and horizontally at an accelerated rate that caused very serious damage to freeways, to homes, to businesses, and to many, many residents in the area. This supplemental appropriations bill goes a long way to enable people to recover. The human element of the supplemental is extraordinarily important: people standing in disaster assistance lines, people who urgently need housing, people whose businesses have crumbled and they need the small business loans. I would just like to quickly update the figures on the disaster, in addition to what the chairman said, on HUD housing grants, the impact aid, the transportation system, the small business loans, FEMA assistance, and the contingency funds.”