Political Quotes

“Mr. President, soon the Senate will pass a supplemental appropriations bill that provides much needed relief for folks across the country who are recovering from hurricane and wildfire devastation. While some of these resources will impact Texans who are recovering from Hurricane Harvey, I stress that much more will be needed in my State. I will make one point abundantly clear, which is that Harvey has not been permanently handled in Texas. It is not over and done with, and it is not time to just move on. There was the storm, and now there is the storm after the storm. Nearly 2 months after the hurricane--the most extreme rain event in U.S. history--many Texans are still waiting for normalcy to return to their debris-littered lawns and their torn-up living rooms, to their daily routines, their workplaces, their children's schools. The waters may have receded, but their troubles have not. I have read, for example, about people having to wait 2, 3, or 4 hours before they can actually even speak to Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, representatives, who themselves are overwhelmed with requests that are related not only to Hurricane Harvey but to Hurricane Irma's devastation in Florida and to Maria's flooding in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Never before do I remember a series of natural disasters hitting our Nation in such quick succession.…”