Chuck Schumer actually said...

"What I would like is the dollars to be distributed in proportion to the damage to the mass transit systems covered by Sandy."

"We need to make sure that we have learned important lessons about how to streamline the process so that when the second tranche of funds is announced we do not run into as lengthy, or the same kind, o..."

"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 ..."

"Thirty thousand dollars roughly, particularly in this region, is not enough."