Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, let me just say, at the end of the day, what we need to be doing is we need to be looking at this through the eyes of the disaster victims. We need to be looking at this through their eyes. Having a bill that codifies under law, locks in that you are talking about 270 days, not from the aftermath of a disaster, but 270 days from when the funds are actually appropriated by the Congress, which could be a year later. It could be 2 years later. That doesn't make sense. There is no connectivity between a FEMA hotel program or mobile home program and getting money in the bank to actually help disaster victims. The bill says that the funds have to be spent in 6 years. Mr. Speaker, how about if we subject Members of Congress to being homeless for 6 years? How about if we make them be homeless for 270 days? How about we make them homeless for 27 hours or 270 minutes. I don't care. This doesn't make sense. It is an inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. The program has proven to be inefficient. The agency has proven that they cannot administer this, and it just doesn't make sense. We need to continue to look at this through the eyes of the disaster victims. Look at the Government Accountability Office report that found all sorts of flaws in here, and let's actually fix the real problems. I urge opposition to this legislation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from North Carolina has expired.”