[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15163]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     FEMA'S HELP AND RESPONSIVENESS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I just met with the FEMA director, Craig 
Fugate, and expressed some general concerns first about the need for 
temporary housing for those in my district. We talked about bringing in 
trailers, and he discussed that and said this was something that they 
were working on. We also talked about the need to have the Army Corps 
do emergency work on dunes and beaches that have been destroyed in the 
storm, and he said he was going to follow up on that.
  We also asked about the State and local match because many of my 
towns are very small, and they can't afford the 25 percent State and 
local match for long-term recovery work. So we're trying to get that 
reduced or eliminated.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, many of my homeowners have been asking if their 
homes can be bought out or raised up on stilts or pilings. This is 
another thing that we're following up on.
  I just wanted to say that I felt that the FEMA director, Mr. Craig 
Fugate, was very responsive to our concerns, and we're going to follow 
up on these and other concerns of a general nature as we continue to 
work on the humanitarian concerns in the individual towns in the Sixth 
District and throughout the State of New Jersey.

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