peter king noted, congressman, that $60 billion was appropriated within ten days for katrina. i think that s part of the predicate of him making that statement. not to make light of it, i think it s actually $64 billion in ten days was allocated towards katrina. i supported that effort as well. sure. i believe that when it comes to a disaster, people constantly ask what role does government have in my life. you know, you realize what the role of government is during a natural disaster like sandy. i don t live in the rockaways, i don t represent that area but it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house.
peter king noted, congressman, that $60 billion was appropriated within ten days for katrina. i think that s part of the predicate of him making that statement. not to make light of it, i think it s actually $64 billion in ten days was allocated towards katrina. i supported that effort as well. sure. i believe that when it comes to a disaster, people constantly ask what role does government have in my life. you know, you realize what the role of government is during a natural disaster like sandy. i don t live in the rockaways, i don t represent that area but it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house.
it s where my family is from. i ve seen the devastation multiple times. and these are people who don t ask for anything. they pull themselves up by their own boot straps and they get going again. but they re suffering right now. and every day that we delay and look, i understand what mr. boehner was going through yesterday. he had a tough vote in his conference. that wasn t fun. neither is not having power in your house. i understand. may i ask you this. this is being attributed to a scheduling snafu. are you aware of any organized opposition to relief for the victims of superstorm sandy? absolutely not. i haven t heard of any organized effort. i heard some of my colleagues on the republican side say they d like to give a lot less than the $60.4 billion. but we thought we had the votes that would pass the amendment to make it a $60.4 billion bill. thank you. appreciate your time. thank you. up next, hillary clinton s expected to make a full recovery
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