Earl Pomeroy: “The sky is beginning to clear over this Chamber. The light of good legislation at last is beginning to shine again. It…”

“The sky is beginning to clear over this Chamber. The light of good legislation at last is beginning to shine again. It should not have been this hard. It should not have been this rancorous. But what counts is getting the job done, and what will matter so much to the people I represent in the flood-afflicted area in the next month, the month after that, next year, perhaps the year after that, is that this body finally did act, and acted in a way that provided very meaningful assistance at a time when our need was so substantial. Mr. Speaker, I want to urge all my colleagues to put the past weeks of debate behind us, then stroll to the voting machines and pass a very large, very strong vote in favor of this disaster relief.”