John Myers: “I do not know of anyone in this House or anyone in the country who does not want to help the victims of this earthquake…”

“I do not know of anyone in this House or anyone in the country who does not want to help the victims of this earthquake in California. Unfortunately, some of us have some difficulty about how we are going to accomplish this without doing more damage to the rest of the country and the rest of our budget. That is the reason I have to offer this amendment. I wish I did not have to do it. I wish we had the mechanism already set up so we would have the means of taking care of disasters like this and helping the people who need the help so badly without doing this to our economy, but unfortunately, through the lack of wisdom of this body, we have not accomplished this through the years. For that reason, I think today is the day we should start taking action to make sure that in the future we will pay for these.”