Political Quotes

“I obviously am committed not only to what is in the supplemental, but I think we need to make it very clear to our colleagues and to the people in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, where I have personally visited very early on and have visited after that again and again, that in terms of responsiveness, we have been responsive in many ways. When I say 21 pieces of legislation, people say, What does that mean? Let me give examples. In terms of things that have been enacted or cleared for the President, we have passed the emergency supplemental, No. 1, which was $10.5 billion in Public Law 10961. We passed another emergency supplemental for $51.8 billion. We passed a Katrina short-term tax relief bill for $6.1 billion; flood insurance borrowing authority, H.R. 3669, for $2 billion; the TANF disaster relief bill for $.3 billion; the unemployed insurance provisions for $.16 billion. We passed a bill for redistribution of campus student aid, another bill for Pell grant relief, another bill for the Community Disaster Loan Act, for a total of $70.9 billion. Those are the things that have passed the Senate and the House.…”