What I would like is the dollars to be distributed in proportion to the damage to the mass transit systems covered by Sandy.
I would urge you strongly to make sure there is enough money in the second tranche to do that because people are waiting...
Thirty thousand dollars roughly, particularly in this region, is not enough.
But they cannot afford it. They do not have $9,000, when they were paying $1,000 before.
In New York, we are building all kinds of dunes to protect our coastal areas, heavily populated, like never before.
We do not have an affordability study, and yet we are making people pay unaffordable rates.
Shame on us if we take more than $10 billion in national taxpayer dollars and then do as you said--spread the dollars he...
We passed a bill back in January with your able assistance, and HUD allocated the initial tranche of money within 8 days...
But now, here we are nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy, and the most consistent question I get from my constituents i...
Thank you for inviting me today to highlight the Federal Transit Administration's role in responding to Hurricane Sandy ...
they have implemented it without an affordability study.