Chuck Schumer actually said...

"Shame on us if we take more than $10 billion in national taxpayer dollars and then do as you said--spread the dollars here, there and everywhere and then have to come back to the taxpayers to rebuild ..."

"We do not have an affordability study, and yet we are making people pay unaffordable rates."

"But now, here we are nearly a year after Superstorm Sandy, and the most consistent question I get from my constituents is why they have not yet been able to receive either funding or reimbursement."

"We passed a bill back in January with your able assistance, and HUD allocated the initial tranche of money within 8 days of the bill passing."