Chuck Schumer

I just ask the leader, the government is shut down. There is nothing we can do to keep it open. The only way to keep the government open would be for the House to pass the resolution we have already sent them; is that correct?

As a New Yorker, the rebuilding of downtown in the years following 9/11 has been nothing short of a miracle.

The sooner we do this, the better, and we are reminded by events near and far--the Boston Marathon bombings, brutal attacks at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi--the threat of terrorism is ever with us.

With many types of insurance, there are things the insured can do to reduce the risk of loss.

The idea that, well, 5 years after 9/11, we could forget about terrorism, everyone knows that is not true.

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But they cannot afford it. They do not have $9,000, when they were paying $1,000 before.

Well, I wish you would consider some kind of--because we are going to be building our shoreline--I am sure Bob is in New Jersey--for a long time.

I know how it is to get FEMA to redo a map because an area of half a million people has very strong, good protective dunes.

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.

I would urge you strongly to make sure there is enough money in the second tranche to do that because people are waiting for their reimbursement.

One of the concerns we have is multiple reviews that slow things down, related to our questions before.

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

Flood insurance--these pilot programs are great, but if you are a homeowner and they are asking you for 9,000 bucks and you cannot afford it, saying 3 years from now there may be some pilot program that figures out how to raise my house or…

I will keep on your back until we get a commitment, as you know me well enough to know.

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

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, of delays we have experienced with the…

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 the infrastructure after the next storm.

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.

Thank you for inviting me today to highlight the Federal Transit Administration's role in responding to Hurricane Sandy nearly 1 year ago.

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.

They have implemented it without an affordability study.

I certainly encourage the FTC to be vigilant here, because you have on the most ridiculous of claims people being put out of business.

It is clear there is a problem. It is clear we need to solve it.