John Culberson: “When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas last year it put over 50 inches of rain into an area the size of New Jersey. It was the…”

“When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas last year it put over 50 inches of rain into an area the size of New Jersey. It was the first category 4 hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since 2004. It was an extraordinary amount of rain and a devastating event, leading to the largest housing disaster in the history of the United States. This led to 1.4 million Texans evacuating their homes, and 300,000 households were left without power. There was over $160 billion in damage. This is the second most expensive storm, Mr. Chairman, in American history, and the most expensive storm in Texas history. Hurricane Harvey was the third major flood to impact the people of Houston in my district since 2015. Mr. Chairman, I want to particularly thank my good friend, Mr. Al Green. We have worked together in the Houston area in a bipartisan fashion. All of us in the Houston area--Al Green, Gene Green, Sheila Jackson Lee, Ted Poe, and Michael McCaul, who is also working with us on this amendment and helped put this forward--all of us in the Houston area have worked together in a bipartisan fashion to help the people of Houston recover. We were proud to work together with the Florida delegation to help the people of Florida recover from Irma and Maria--and Puerto Rico.…”