David Price: “We should all redouble our efforts to address instead the underlying causes of our long-term fiscal challenges.”

First of all, the case you make for the authorization--the permanent authorization or CDBG-DR, we do need that.

This won't be the last one we see. We know that the biosphere will continue to throw things at us.

I absolutely agree. And we will hope to prove that in the weeks ahead.

I urge my colleagues to sit up and take notice of this. This is quite an amendment--quite a radical amendment. It indiscriminately would cut a total of 36 percent from programs in Transportation and Housing without any regard for the…