[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18613]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF

  (Mr. CROWLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Speaker, let me join my colleagues in my sadness 
that we are here at 11:30 on the 1st of January with time running out. 
We just had a historic vote, a bipartisan vote, something that people 
didn't think we could do here, but we did do that.
  And now we're letting this opportunity slip away when people's homes 
have been destroyed, when people's businesses have been destroyed, and 
when tens of thousands of people who have suffered over 9 weeks have 
nothing to show from this Congress. That we would walk away without 
doing our part to help the people suffering in New York, in New Jersey, 
Connecticut, and Pennsylvania and other parts of the country is 
outrageous. It is simply outrageous.
  We've done our part. We've worked with our colleagues. And I thank 
Mr. King, and I thank Mr. Reed and Mr. Grimm for working with us. But 
it got us to no avail here. We needed to work to get this done for our 
constituency, and it has failed.
  Mr. Speaker, please reconsider and bring this bill to the floor 
before we leave this Congress.

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