Joe Scarborough: “as I was saying just a minute ago to the gentleman from Mississippi, it is frustrating to hear time and time again about…”

“as I was saying just a minute ago to the gentleman from Mississippi, it is frustrating to hear time and time again about the need for these clean CRs. Now, if we wanted to address just how clean this CR was, and I may ask the gentleman from Mississippi in a minute or two to talk about some of the things that were in the bill, but the President said please do not jeopardize flood relief for these poor victims, just send me a clean CR, or a clean appropriations bill. If we wanted to talk about a clean bill, that would add up to about $750 million. If we were concerned about flood relief for the victims of the horrible floods up in the Midwest, we would have sent $750 million. Unfortunately, by the time this bill got passed through the House and through the Senate and through the White House requests, this $750 million quickly became $8.4 billion. The same Democrats that have stood on this floor earlier today arguing about how horrible it was that we would not send a clean emergency appropriations bill, were the same Democrats that threatened to derail this measure if we did not put in things such as a parking garage in Ohio that had absolutely nothing to do with what the flood victims were suffering from; or who threatened to strike this down if we did not put in provisions pertaining to apple orchard subsidies.”