[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 15, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H174-H175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          NO CONDITIONS ON AID

  (Mr. LIEU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LIEU. Mr. Speaker, less than 4 weeks ago, Congress passed the 
American Relief Act, which provided disaster aid to States such as 
Florida, South Carolina, and Oklahoma. Did Democrats demand conditions 
on this aid because it went to red States? No, because we are all 
Americans. We are all God's children.
  Congress has never put conditions on disaster aid because when Mother 
Nature strikes, she doesn't ask for your party affiliation before she 
hurts you. The people who were hurt in the fires in southern California 
were parents, children, and grandchildren who lost their homes or lost 
their loved ones.
  I am asking Republican Members of Congress to please stop using the 
pain and suffering of disaster victims for

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their own political purposes. It is not American. It is not Christian. 
It is not moral.

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