Kent Conrad: “I ask my colleague, what in the State plan enables it to deal with a natural disaster like Hurricane Andrew? The State…”

“I ask my colleague, what in the State plan enables it to deal with a natural disaster like Hurricane Andrew? The State plan has the States setting out what they are going to do with the resources that they have under the block grant. When they are hit with a natural disaster and the need skyrockets, they are not given any more money. What good does the plan do that does not anticipate this disaster? Obviously, they would not be taking the option of going to the block grant if they were anticipating it, so clearly it would not be in their plan.”