The federal government does have a role in situations like this when there's a disaster there's an appropriate federal role. And we will find the moneys. But we've had discussions about these things before. And those moneys will be offset with appropriate savings or cost cutting elsewhere in order to meet the priority of the federal government's role in a situation like this.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor discusses the federal government's role in disaster relief and the need for budget offsets to fund it.
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