Political Quotes

“This amendment, once again, is a bipartisan amendment. My good friends Congressman Cedric Richmond, Congressman Gene Green, Congressman Ralph Abraham, Congressman Clay Higgins, and Congressman Brian Babin are all supporters of this amendment. Mr. Chairman, this is a very simple amendment. Following our August 2016 floods in south Louisiana, FEMA came in and provided housing solutions. The solutions included the utilization of trailers. Because FEMA needs an acronym for everything, they were called MHUs, mobile housing units. When you added up the cost to purchase, transport, store, and set up these things, FEMA was in the hole anywhere from $120,000 to $170,000 per pop. Mr. Chairman, you could buy these same units right there in the vicinity of the flood from local trailer dealers for anywhere from $28,000 to I think the highest cost we saw was about $40,000, including setup. It doesn't take a rocket scientist, Mr. Chairman, to realize that you could get it faster and you are helping to revive the local economy by using local solutions, as opposed to the case when FEMA is doing this, when it took months and months and months to give people even a single housing option in some cases. So what this amendment does is it simply says that, if a local entity, a local government entity, if a State entity, can provide a housing solution for 50 percent of the cost, or less, as compared to the alternative that FEMA provides, then they can be reimbursed. Mr.…”