Louise Slaughter: “Mr. Speaker, I rise to also oppose the rule. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and I must read different…”

“Mr. Speaker, I rise to also oppose the rule. The gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey) and I must read different things, but let me tell you why. This place passed out a tax cut way out there and now everybody stands up and says, ``We don't have enough money to do what's necessary.'' We are in such a fix that the leadership from Texas has to bring us out here and put us under martial law. Why? Because they want to have $1.3 billion in relief to Texas. Now, yesterday on the Foreign Ops bill, we could pass all this money, 300 and some odd million dollars to wipe out drugs in Colombia. But in this bill, because we need $1.3 billion, we take $310 million in drug money, fighting drugs, out of the public housing in this country. We worry about it in Colombia but not in our own cities. We wipe out AmeriCorps for $445 million. We are getting closer to that $1.3. The issue here is what is an emergency. The White House says that what goes on in India, where they knocked down 100,000 houses and 30,000 people died, we can give them $5 million. That is how much the great and generous and rich United States can do. In El Salvador, where they have had the worst earthquake in history, we give them nothing.”