Ted Poe: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate it, Congressman Weber, for allowing us to talk a little bit about…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. I appreciate it, Congressman Weber, for allowing us to talk a little bit about Hurricane Harvey and what folks did down in the Texas area. While it was still raining hard, I get a phone call, and I looked at the area code on my cell phone and I said: I think that is Massachusetts. And sure enough, it was Representative Kennedy from Boston, Massachusetts, calling me saying he would do whatever he could to get Bostonian's first responders down to Texas to help out. And that is what happened, as has already been mentioned by all of my colleagues tonight: both sides of Members of Congress working on this issue to help in Harvey. Beto O'Rourke is from El Paso. You are from Beaumont. People may not realize that there is a sign in Beaumont. I used to represent Beaumont, as you know. As you are driving in from Louisiana, there is a sign that says: El Paso, Texas, 876 miles away. That is how far it is from Beaumont to El Paso, and yet Beto O'Rourke made his way all the way to the Houston-Galveston area to help out as well. The whole State helped with what was taking place. The magnitude of the devastation--not just the weather, but the devastation--if you take the State of New Jersey and turn it on its side and set it down on the Gulf Coast, that is how much devastation there was in the State of Texas. That was the area that was hit where disaster occurred.…”