Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"It is our job to protect people. It is our job to help communities rebuild when there are natural disasters that local governments just cannot afford to be able to pay for on their own."

"New York has never suffered on this level because of a natural disaster ever."

"The reason why these hearings matter is because the rest of Congress... has not seen the devastation in these communities."

"I really appreciated when you said that you would stand by us in the way that New York stood by you during that difficult time."