[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise not as a person from a State that was 
directly affected, because my State of Pennsylvania, while impacted, 
had no where near the devastation of that which I saw in New York, New 
Jersey, and parts of Connecticut.
  In fact, I was in New York a week ago in an elevator and met a man 
who was telling me how happy he was that he finally had a chance to get 
out of the pickup truck that he had been sleeping in since the storm. 
He was hoping, for the first time, to get back to his home. His story 
is just one of hundreds of thousands through this devastated region.
  We have stepped up for our neighbors in other parts of our country 
because these acts of nature are larger than any individual. We must be 
larger than that. Support the ability to give that support to those in 
this time of need.

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