On the recordSeptember 26, 2017
First, to the President: Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are in crisis. People are dying, and the time for action is now. Send our ships. Send our planes. Send our soldiers and our personnel over. We need water and food and medicine. These are Americans, and we can't turn our backs on them. To Mr. Speaker: We need a FEMA supplemental package without delay, and include not only Texas and Florida, but the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico with the same funding per capita as the States. They need resources just like our great State of Florida. To the Governors in many States from whom folks from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands will seek refuge in the meantime: Be prepared--your schools, your hospitals, shelters. Families in these areas, open your homes to our friends and to your neighbors. The United States Government must act with urgency beginning today. ____________________
