[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 195 (Thursday, November 30, 2017)]
[House]
[Page H9562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CATASTROPHIC FLOODING AID

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, certainly my deepest thoughts as well 
to the Hinchey family.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I come from an area that saw the 
greatest catastrophic flooding in the history of the continental United 
States. Someone asked me: I haven't heard anything from your State.
  I said to them: We are still hurting.
  We do have 120,000 to 130,000 homes still under water. People are 
living in shells.
  I am not selfish. I know what is going on in Puerto Rico, the U.S. 
Virgin Islands, and Florida. We begged the administration to give us 
the amount of money in their request for what was needed, and we got 
$44 billion for every victim from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Puerto 
Rico to Florida to Texas. I can't stand for that, for the desperate 
people who are in need.
  I ask the President to reevaluate his submission and to submit to us 
a reasoned response to the devastation of this State and the other 
States. I ask the appropriators, who I know are very concerned, to come 
together to give us the emergency supplemental so that homes can be 
rebuilt, that homes can be bought out, and that, in fact, the 
infrastructure that is crumbling and caused the major flooding, that 
reservoir pools that flooded whole complete developments, can be fixed, 
that we can do infrastructure and save lives.
  The people of the floods beg of you, and we will be in the fight.

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