Collin Peterson: “I just wanted to relay, I just got off the phone with the mayor and city leaders of East Grand Forks, which was entirely…”

“I just wanted to relay, I just got off the phone with the mayor and city leaders of East Grand Forks, which was entirely under water, and they are in the process of trying to figure out what to do. They are under tremendous pressure from the homeowners that want to be moved. They want answers today about what they are going to do. Are they going to have their houses bought out? Are they going to be able to buy another house? And this is a real frustration for them, not having these answers and possibly us going home tonight without having passed a bill. If I could just make a suggestion. It appears, from everything I can tell, that the $500 million for CDBG money is in both bills and that is pretty much a given. What really is a bigger problem, and maybe those of you that are working on this, if we can come to some specifics of how we are going to put the CDBG money out to the States so we can start the process, so that when this does get done in 2 weeks we will be ready to hit the ground running, that will help us a lot.”