[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 184 (Wednesday, December 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6945-S6946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                        Disaster Relief Funding

  Mr. TILLIS. Mr. President, I am going to be brief because you don't 
want to stand in the way of the majority leader-elect.

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  I come to the floor today because at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the 
house chamber in Raleigh, there is a veto-override. There was a veto by 
Governor Cooper for a disaster relief bill that the people of Western 
North Carolina need.
  Now, I understand there are provisions in there that have to do with 
a legitimate disagreement about the scope and the role of the executive 
branch, but this is not the time for us to rethink whether or not we 
should be sending every signal we can to the people of North Carolina 
that help is on the way.
  I am doing my part here in this Chamber to make sure that our Members 
stay focused on providing $100 billion in relief before we get out of 
this Congress. I need my colleagues in Raleigh to vote to override that 
veto today so that we can be sure that North Carolina knows that every 
Republican and every Democrat--we are not Republicans or Democrats; we 
are North Carolinians trying to provide desperate help to a land mass 
the size of Massachusetts that has experienced more than 100 deaths, 
thousands of businesses impacted, thousands of people out of their 
homes.
  So I just come to the floor today to encourage any member who may 
have one reason or another to not sustain this veto-override in the 
house chamber in Raleigh to set that aside today and go do right by the 
people of Western North Carolina.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Republican whip.