Remember when TX Senators voted 'no' on Hurricane Sandy aid?

[KnighttimeJoe]

As the federal government considers how best to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey, Rep. Pete King, whose home state of New York was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2013, reminded his Lone Star State colleagues that some of them voted against a $51-billion aid package that year.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harv...-defend-votes-sandy-funding/story?id=49470206

 

[UCFKnight85]

Remember when Obama threw in tons of shit unrelated to Sandy relief funding? Good times. The salmon in Alaska were truly suffering Sandy's wrath.

Remember when Mayor Bloomberg at that time agreed that there should be scrutiny applied to the $60B request? Good times. We'll just forget that.

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

 

[UCF11and1]

So they had 0.35% (rounding up) of pork in the proposal or $200M in a $60,400M package. It is not OK to include shit like that but it is a crime to delay the relief package for 0.35%.

Hopefully with the GOP in power we'll see a clean bill for Texas

 

[NinjaKnight]

So they had 0.35% (rounding up) of pork in the proposal or $200M in a $60,400M package. It is not OK to include shit like that but it is a crime to delay the relief package for 0.35%.

Hopefully with the GOP in power we'll see a clean bill for Texas

You know Trumpets can't do math, they can't even understand the 1st amendment.

 

[UCFKnight85]

You know Trumpets can't do math, they can't even understand the 1st amendment.

Damn bro, you butthurt?

 

[btbones]

Any of you playin games and

So they had 0.35% (rounding up) of pork in the proposal or $200M in a $60,400M package. It is not OK to include shit like that but it is a crime to delay the relief package for 0.35%.

Hopefully with the GOP in power we'll see a clean bill for Texas

Just 200 million . No problem

 

[UCFKnight85]

Cruz should troll these idiots by throwing in an amendment to this relief bill that requests $200M for cattle ranch improvements in Colorado and marine life research in the Florida Keys

 

[sirdingydang]

You know Trumpets can't do math, they can't even understand the 1st amendment.

Cruz among the worst at math. "Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.”"

 

[NinjaKnight]

Damn bro, you butthurt?

Why would I be butthurt because you still can't comprehend the 1st amendment? That's an odd thing to say.

 

[CommuterBob]

Remember when Obama signed an infrastructure bill that had less than 10% of the funding going to actual infrastructure projects? Good times. Yes, let's politicize another national disaster. Please.

 

[UCF11and1]

Remember when Obama signed an infrastructure bill that had less than 10% of the funding going to actual infrastructure projects? Good times. Yes, let's politicize another national disaster. Please.

WTF does it have to do with disaster relief?

 

[UCF11and1]

Cruz among the worst at math. "Two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy.”"

He probably thinks that "emergency relief" should only include enough money to pump the water out and mop whatever is left

 

[CommuterBob]

WTF does it have to do with disaster relief?

Exactly.

 

[UCFBS]

So they had 0.35% (rounding up) of pork in the proposal or $200M in a $60,400M package. It is not OK to include shit like that but it is a crime to delay the relief package for 0.35%.

I disagree.

In fact, we Libertarians have a solution for that. Vote us in and we'll veto every freak'n thing on the planet, until Congress gives us a Constitutional Line Item Veto.

Then see what really happens!

 

[sk8knight]

It was more than the .35% of items that were shown in the graphic. The Heritage Foundation did a good analysis of this bill. Less than $23 billion of the $60 billion involved addressing emergency damages. Much of the rest of the funding provided future upgrades to government capabilities. This was an emergency bill that short-circuited regular checks-and-balances. There should have been no future appropriations in this bill. Those should have been subject to the normal appropriations processes.

Also, to illustrate why some might have had questions about the bill: "As a point of perspective, with the vast majority of homes and businesses privately insured, the total cost estimate for the entire private industry is just more than $20 billion. Why is the federal spending proposal three times as large?"

 

[UCF11and1]

It was more than the .35% of items that were shown in the graphic. The Heritage Foundation did a good analysis of this bill. Less than $23 billion of the $60 billion involved addressing emergency damages. Much of the rest of the funding provided future upgrades to government capabilities. This was an emergency bill that short-circuited regular checks-and-balances. There should have been no future appropriations in this bill. Those should have been subject to the normal appropriations processes.

Also, to illustrate why some might have had questions about the bill: "As a point of perspective, with the vast majority of homes and businesses privately insured, the total cost estimate for the entire private industry is just more than $20 billion. Why is the federal spending proposal three times as large?"

Unless I am missing something, they did an poor job explaining the problem: what are/were they going to do with the other $40B?
The article only mentions "For instance, the bill includes money to improve weather forecasting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), funds for weather research programs, additional cash for upgrading NOAA reconnaissance aircraft, and state and tribal assistance grants for clean water and pollution control."The tribal stuff shouldn't be there but I don't have a problem with the funds for NOAA.
I also like how the citations are links back to the article.
See link for another article with more details:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hing-to-do-with-sandy/?utm_term=.0e919cbbea6b

 

[sk8knight]

Unless I am missing something, they did an poor job explaining the problem: what are/were they going to do with the other $40B?
The article only mentions "For instance, the bill includes money to improve weather forecasting by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), funds for weather research programs, additional cash for upgrading NOAA reconnaissance aircraft, and state and tribal assistance grants for clean water and pollution control."The tribal stuff shouldn't be there but I don't have a problem with the funds for NOAA.
I also like how the citations are links back to the article.
See link for another article with more details:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...hing-to-do-with-sandy/?utm_term=.0e919cbbea6b

I don't have problems funding improvements to NOAA either. The issue that I have is that they should not go into an emergency bill design to repair damage to government and community. Future funding has its own course through the system and that's where that $40 billion belonged. But, never let a good crisis go to waste.

 

[Sir Galahad]

No amount of money could make Long Island respectable. It was a waste.

 

[Bob the Citronaut]

Long Island is a cesspool. We've been screwed by two companies in that shit hole in the last year. Never hiring or doing work for any company on that shitty strip of land ever again.

 

[NinjaKnight]

This week long gif of radar coverage shows how nuts Harvey is. Poor Houston.