I am proud that the Senate adopted a $6.9 billion disaster recovery that included all of your agencies.
I think it is going to be extremely difficult even with the array of other programs.
But to have programs that people have hope for and not fund them I think is the cruelest of all.
I think, unfortunately, we have developed a habit and a pattern of underbudgeting for emergencies that we absolutely know, based on historic...
So it is a $3 billion backlog?
We are lending people money at 6 percent and 7 percent. We call that a low-interest loan.
I am going to ask you if $100 million is enough, and how many people you have had to tell no to when you ran out of that money.
Can you please give me an update--not now, but in writing, please--about this project?
And I think the Senator from Mississippi is absolutely correct.
Somebody needs to respond to this situation.
I think that is what Senator Cochran, Senator Blunt, I, and others are saying, that after this historic flood, we need to take an assessment...