Hal Rogers: “I thank the gentleman for yielding again. I'll be very brief. The gentlewoman who just spoke mentioned Katrina and that…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding again. I'll be very brief. The gentlewoman who just spoke mentioned Katrina and that we should not offset expenses of emergency disaster spending. In fact, in 2006 that's exactly what we did do. We required offsets for aid for Katrina and other matters, $33.5 billion in offsets in Katrina aid in 2006. And then again in 2007, we offset $939 million in offsets for, among other things, Hurricane Katrina recovery. As I have said before, over the last 10 years, we have offset more than half of the disaster emergency relief bills we have passed here. It's not unusual, and the gentlelady is mistaken that we did not request offsets for Katrina. We did.”