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Additional $25 million in sandy aid went, to a very well produced ad campaign, in fact, a whopping $7.4 million paid for this commercial. turns out the firm hired to run the campaign had been chosen over an advertising firm that had bid 40% less, but did not propose using the governors family in the spot. >> jersey shore is open. >> were stronger than the storm. >> you bet we are. >> right now, there are thousands of people still out of their homes a year after the storm hit. >> did you think wh...

Against sandy aid. 80%. and most -- most of the ones who voted for it were from new york, new jersey or pennsylvania. areas that were affected. hopefully the speaker will say, well bring the bill to the floor even though 80% of the republicans were against it. 15 -- not 15%, 15 republicans. that would be 3% of republicans voted with us on food stamps. 97% of the republicans voted to cut $40 billion more out of food stamps. so this is an odd group. but we just cant wait around for the hastert rul...

Ad youll only hear in new jersey. which has sued governor chrisri over sandy aid. congressman, ill begin with you, has governor cristhristie a good job? >> hes done a good job to build his image. the harder youre hit by sandy, the less satisfied you are with the response of the christie administration. youll hear you made reference to this lawsuit against him on lack of transparency on how the funds disburse and object a very small fraction of the funds have been disbursed. and so i think theres...

Security and privacy. and a lot of things i think that will be interesting to watch play out over the next two years. >> i want to play something that the last paul presidential candidate said in a republican debate when asked about foreign aid and specifically foreign aid to israel, lets listen to that. >> congressman paul, would you cut aid to israel. >> i would cut all foreign aid, i would treat everyone equally and fairly. >> so steve schmidt, that is part of why rand paul ended up with 8%, ...

Until the work is done because thats who we are. >> weve got your back. or, as some like to say, weve got your back if youre in our backyard. case in point, oklahomas republican senator jim inhofe who opposed sandy aid, calling it a slush fund, but now finds himself singing, well, a rather different tune. >> our victims are desperately need your help right now. they need your money. >> yes. of course, they do. and that plea for aid will surely be answered by americans who exhibit much greater ge...

Congressman from louisiana says, this is not an immediate need. why is this in here? they are trying to cut back the smaller funding that some described as pork when the bill came out of the senate, right after christmas. >> neil: you are an encyclopedia. this is what they are voting on in the house. this is the mulvaney amendment, aimed at matching dollar for dollar, whatever you grant in sandy aid, you make cuts in other budgets, by his math, 1.6% in discretionary spending to pay for what coul...

>> and youre running for new jersey senator, the big but in that, is the incumbent, served well. i dont think you have any differences, his staff is taking anonymous shots saying youre not being respectful to the incumbent senator, what are you doing making announcements involving the word "senate." >> yeah, and i apologize, off camera i thought we were going to talk about guns. >> and well do that. >> and this is not an issue, in order to stay in compliance with federal issues, i cant go down t...

Differences, his staff is taking anonymous shots saying youre not being respectful to the incumbent senator, what are you doing making announcements involving the word "senate". >> yeah, and i apologize, off camera i thought we were going to talk about guns. >> and well do that. >> and this is not an issue, in order to stay in compliance with federal issues, i cant go down to meet with people from the mayoral account. i have to file something. this is 18 months away. it is a long time. all of ne...

They have not said how exactly the state is dispersing those funds. but when asked about the improper rejections of applicants this week, the state didnt blame hgi. all of that is now in the national spotlight, thanks to the attention brought to new jersey over the george washington bridge traffic scandal, and to the work done to groups like fair share housing center, whose work prompted the first accomplishment from the christie administration that there was even a problem with how funding appl...

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