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“Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Rouzer), my friend, for yielding. Look, I understand I am in the minority on this legislation in more ways than one. Mr. Speaker, years ago, there was a movie called ``Brewster's Millions.'' ``Brewster's Millions'' featured Richard Pryor, John Candy, and others. In that movie, Richard Pryor was tasked with spending $30 million in 30 days in order to get access to $300 million in inheritance. So what he did in that movie is he just went out there and carelessly spent money hand over fist, just spending it irresponsibly and recklessly because it wasn't his money. He didn't have to really care about if it was spent in a wise or principled manner. Mr. Speaker, I am concerned that perhaps we are doing a little bit of that here. I want to be clear: I agree that our local governments and our State governments deserve relief, but, Mr. Speaker, in 2018, just 2 years ago, we actually passed, we enacted, section 1232 of the Disaster Recovery Relief Act that requires that FEMA look at the cumulative impact of disasters in a region to determine what the cost share should be. So, the law already provides a mechanism to reduce the cost share. I agree that they have not done a good job implementing it, but I do believe it is important for us to ensure that local and State governments have some concern with the dollars that are being spent, some skin in the game. Lastly, Mr.…”