as well as congress from the white house? well, first you have to remember after superstorm sandy, there were two relief measures. one was a smaller one, much like the measure we ll see coming up for harvey next week and then the $50 billion measure, that was a controversial one that many were criticized because it had rerelated items in it. that is the million dollar question. if kolgs attempts to congress attempts to pass a debt limit increase. that is a problem. if they wait and try to pass it with another disaster relief bill that is bigger, they may have a better chance. but again, you are mixingishures that don t need to be together. congress is going to have a difficult time passing a debt limit increase. they should keep the dafter relief the disaster relief package separate because all avenue sudden this is going to get all political and the hand holding will end and all of the good feelings will go away. stand by if you can. my two friends.
of what texas and louisiana are going to need based on initial estimates. there are several more bills to come and the bigger they get, the more controversial it could get. especially given all of the other stuff congress has to do. it has no choice to do. and remember, that critical national flood insurance program that so many people in houston are going to be relying on is one of the things that needs to be reauthorized in the next month. and brian, as we get to that over $100 billion estimate as the president will need to answer to that. right. and we ve seen it before. because of sandy and katrina, where the numbers quickly do grow after the initial brunt of the storm leaves and with the reporting from noaa now is harvey will leave north america at the end of this holiday weekend. and folks will not miss harvey very much. how does this president handle it with the issue of the debt limit and handle it well so that it brings together congress as opposed to separating congress
district attorney. but very minimal reports of that. and minimal reports of looting. so generally things are calm. but as i said, stay calm, until we get to the point where people don t feel like they are making any progress. and this is why we are really ramped up by the whole recovery process. we have got to get that going. and school is starting. one of my goals is to make sure kids get to go to the school they are going to and that means you have to get close to the neighborhood. and the word is when many districts do start classes on september 11th, they won t be open and you ll have to find some other plan for now. understandable, sir. but i know you are focused on trying to solve that problem. judge ed emit, thank you for all of your great work down there and it is good to have some positive headlines to report on today. thank you. my pleasure. thank you, sir. i want to bring in reporter scott detrow who covers congress. and scott, what we re watching right now are live
leadership, he s showing compassion and doing what he needs to do as president to help bring the country together. the question is, here as we move to monday and tuesday and wednesday and the coming weeks when we have the debt limit coming up, does this opening in the road, does the president decide to take it or not and, brian, as we have seen before, we could move from a what seems to be a day for regardless of party everybody is together on helping people here, but that could quickly change. yeah, it can. and my worries is that congress will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory because we are already reading it is possible this disaster relief bill will pass the house and go over to the senate and they ll try and add an increase in the debt limit to it. that will really complicate prospects for quick passage of the disaster relief bill. and again it may be a situation, an example of congress fumbling the ball and making a mistake because they should pass this bill and get it d
those opposed no. two thirds being in the firmive the rules affirmative, bill is passed. new mr. speaker i request. york. i request the yeas and nays. the yeas and nays requested. those farrowing a vote. a sufficient number have risen. members will record their voice by electronic device. this will be a five minute vote. jon: we understand that is representative kevin yoder who is presiding over the house right now. we also understand that at least according to his voice vote tally, that the house passed a rule which allows them to debate numbers members of the house fund the government but there seems to be some question of that. some calls for a voice count, a yea and ney count. maybe mike emanuel who covers congress for us on a daily basis can give us more information. mike? jon, the moderate revolt