I thank the gentleman for yielding. I think the important point is that this has to be a collective effort of the administration and the bodies of the House and the Senate. The only point that I would make is that the administration has not sent forward--yes, the $81 billion--but we are not moving it in the Senate. The administration has not been engaged actively to say that they want to help the people who are impacted, and they have a skinny impact or skinny impression of what we need of $81 billion for all of the disaster areas. And, of course, Mr. Sessions, my good friend, understands that $1 trillion tax cut does not help us in getting the increased disaster money.
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