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Louisiana. elizabeth: we obviously all remember what happened after super storm sandy and we heard a lot from governor chris christie this week, he was critical saying we should not repeat what happened and should handle it differently. what being said, what can the president do to prevent that from happening again. obviously there will be times where it s polarized and we ll see it get politicized like leland had said. what can he do in the next coming weeks to revent that? he can lead and he can call in the leadership of congress, and make sure that this is a clean bill, a disaster bill. the sandy bill was chockful of nongermane amendments. we ve got to stop that. look, we don t need to bribe congressmen and women to take care of their fellow americans by giving them something for their vote. that s an outrage. we should come together on a clean bill and make sure that there s enough money that can be absorbed into the economies of texas and louisiana for the people s needs as they ....
Tend to load them up. they ll toned use something like this hurricane relief bill or i m sorry, super storm relief bill to basically, you know, load it up with unrelated items. and we did see that with the sandy bill. we saw $2 million for the smith seasonian, massive amounts of money for community block grant programs, community development block grant programs. and that may become a problem if congress can t resist the idea of adding unrelated items to this bill. also the debt limit, could be a huge problem if they try and marry the debt limit to a relief bill package. is that the danger really more for democrats as a potentially remember super storm sandy and what republicans like crews had to famously done ask rejected that assistance in. well, so far the people who were so critical of ted cruz and other people who voted against the sandy package, they ve certainly made a lot of noise saying we remember what you did, ....
The texas delegation voted against funding for sandy. you know how complicated it can be. what do you see happening here? what would you be okay with? congress has a bad habit of lumping a lot of unrelated things together. that s why i was originally opposed to the sandy bill. disaster relief is something that is has brought bipartisan support. i think the sheer magnitude of this is going to push us up against the debt ceiling. and that discussion of the debt ceiling i m afraid is going to have to be part of it. you think it s that will make it more complicated, congressman? again, it could potentially make it more complicated. but i do think that this is something that will get through, the american people have a big heart. i don t think they would stand for a congress that would leave people we ve seen in these videos you re showing now suffering and homeless. well, one would hope so, although some folks, including ....
Congress has a bad habit of lumping a lot of unrelated things together. that s why i was originally opposed to the sandy bill. disaster relief that was something that that has broad bipartisan support but i think the just sheer magnitude of this is going to push us up against the debt ceiling and that discussion of the debt ceiling has to be part of that. that was republican congressman blake farenthold of texas weighing in on how harvey relief can be added to some bills in congress. lawmakers are set to return from summer break next week and here is what is topping the agenda. approving heart relief funds, passing a budget, raising the debt ceiling, keeping the government open and making moves on tax reform possibly even health care. a daunting list to say the least. but can the bipartisanship out of harvey undo some of ....
Firsthand. what is your message as politicians come back to washington? can they get their act together and get that money into texas despite some of the bad blood that might exist between people on all sides, because of those votes against that sandy funding five years ago? you know, i saw both congressman king and governor christie talking about what senator cruz had done a few years ago with the sandy recovery bill. that was unfortunate. and it s true that ted cruz today is being a hypocrite. it s not true that that bill, the sandy bill, was mostly full of pork. in fact, the congressional research service said the opposite. they said that the bill actually stayed true to the purpose of sandy recovery. so, they need to put politics aside, though, this time. you know, that s the past. that was addressed. there were funds that were dedicated to sandy recovery. at hud, we helped administer some of those funds so i know that that has been money that ....