Patrick Leahy: “When they say it is not an emergency, look at what happened with this…”

On the recordDecember 28, 2012

When they say it is not an emergency, look at what happened with this hurricane. We lost 120 American lives. We lost 340,000 homes. We lost 200,000 businesses due to the effects of Sandy. If that is not an emergency, then I have not seen an emergency in all my years in the Senate. There are 12 States with disaster or emergency declarations in place due to Sandy's wrath. It produced an emergency disaster for our Nation. It should be considered as such through the appropriations process, and I applaud the Chair of the Appropriations Committee for moving this. I yield the floor.

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Patrick Leahy

Democratic · Vermont

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Dec 28, 2012

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