going directly to sandy victims. you know, the flood insurance program itself is broken. people should be asking why people are paying premiums, but yet the fund doesn t have enough money to pay out the claims. these are fundamental problems, and every time we get into a disaster, we do the exact same thing. we keep kicking the can down the road and asking our children to pay for it. that s what we re doing let me ask ron reagan to weigh in. ron, after the senate early passed its version of the sandy aid bill, senators john mccain and tom coburn put out a list of what they call questionable spending in it, including, for example, $2 million to repair damage to the roofs of museums in washington, d.c., while many in hurricane sandy s path still have no roof over their heads. $150 million for fisheries as far away from the storm s path as alaska. $15 million for nasa facilities though nasa itself has called damage from the hurricane minimal. all of those provisions were stripped from
senate bill that governor christie and others were upset about and members of congress so i m clear, if this were a funding bill for nails to be used in shingles for people s roofs, you d have still been against it on the basis that there was no offset. it s the offset, not the nature of what it was, that drives your opposition. is that true? well, no. that s not entirely true. in today s bill the nature was just that it wasn t offset. the offset is just one of the many things. we think that the bill could be parcelled out into smaller chunks. there s no reason why the government has to go and appropriate $10 billion in one day. we don t know if that money is going directly to sandy victims. you know, the flood insurance program itself is broken. people should be asking why people are paying premiums, but yet the fund doesn t have enough money to pay out the claims. these are fundamental problems, and every time we get into a disaster, we do the exact same thing. we keep kicking
issues that were in the big senate bill that governor christie and others were upset about and members of congress so i m clear, if this were a funding bill for nails to be used in shingles for people s roofs, you d have still been against it on the basis that there was no offset. it s the offset, not the nature of what it was, that drives your opposition. is that true? well, no. that s not entirely true. in today s bill the nature was just that it wasn t offset. the offset is just one of the many things. we think that the bill could be parcelled out into smaller chunks. there s no reason why the government has to go and appropriate $10 billion in one day. we don t know if that money is going directly to sandy victims. you know, the flood insurance program itself is broken. people should be asking why people are paying premiums, but yet the fund doesn t have enough money to pay out the claims. these are fundamental problems, and every time we get into a disaster, we do the exact
president obama, or fema s fault. he thinks it s john boehner for not pushing through onle fema the sandy relief bill when they had a vote on the fiscal cliff. does he have a point. it s a bad week to be a republican. this has been a debacle, this is a self-inflicted wound on the part of the house leadership. they were so busy capitulating on the fiscal cliff, they bother to explain to the american people why they weren t going to capitulate on this pork-laden bill. they have chris christie and peter king, and he s saying i instructed people to do this and that, and looks like he instructed democrats to load this thing one with pork, pork, pork, and half the money this bill is for long-term mitigation efforts that have nothing to do with sandy victims and not for relief of sandy victims. got money for fisheries in alaska and mississippi and money for the roof of the
see ya! whoaa.oops! mom? i m ok. grandma? hi sweetie! she operates the head. [ male announcer ] campbell s chunky soup. it fills you up right. here we go again. speaker boehner is in charge of the republican party. it s a party that s become the butt of late-night jokes. a party in the middle of the civil war. a party whose brand is sinking to an all-time low. 65% of americans describe the republican party negatively. wow. 65% of americans can t agree on much of anything. but here s how you know it s bad. the most popular member of the party, right now, refuses to back down from his blistering attack on boehner for playing politics with sandy victims. there s only one group to