Just because you are poor and you get flooded, the problem we have in our neighborhood...

I can tell you, as a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, I am going to use every financial tool at my disposal to light a fire under every bureaucracy that I can find that is sitting on this money.

Get money in the hands of people who have been injured.

It is not. It is not adequate.

We really need your help.

I wanted to urge you to keep us in the forefront of your mind, the people of Florida and the people of Texas, who are really suffering as a result of these terrible hurricanes that hit Texas.

It is really urgent.

This is really urgent, that you waive.

It is very frustrating to see the slowness. I have discovered there is $500 million from Hurricane Ike still stuck at GLO waiting to get out.

I have thousands of constituents, who are still living on the second floor of their homes, with either no sheetrock, or very little sheetrock, on the first floor.

I have got tens of thousands of constituents who are living on the second floor of their house with all the sheetrock torn out on the first level. They have nowhere else to go. These are $400,000 and $500,000 houses. These people are not…