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Local government is getting reimbursed for the tremendous amounts of money that were laid out which will certainly help people with their property taxes. much of the slowdown, if you will, is because first of all it took congress almost three months to act. and then after that you had 60 days where the government had to solicit opinions. and also a lot of what they re trying to do is make sure there is no waste of money, the claims are proper. we try to work with fema. we work with the s.p.a., we did for a while. and now we worked with new york rising in new york, which distributes the funds and i think it is speeding up. again, it took a while for everything to be approved at the federal level, and then the state. and fema has been giving a lot more money, and all i can say is the process is speeding up. for anybody out of their home as a number of my constituents are, it still is a real problem. we are far, far ahead of where we were just a year ago. ....

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