Peter DeFazio actually said...

It is absolutely nuts. But we are going to cut real preparedness to do this.

To cut 25 percent of the budget for preparedness grants, to cut the pre-disaster mitigation funds, that is whistling through the graveyard.

We have been working for a generation to connect ourselves to the economy of Chicago, which is larger than the economy of Sweden.

But all of this effort for a generation will be for naught if that capital investment grant program is not adequately funded.