[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 152]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to adopt the entire 
package today for Sandy relief. My district was devastated by the 
hurricane. We really are in need of this funding in order to rebuild, 
and we shouldn't have to delay anymore. It's, I think, into the 10th 
week now since the storm occurred.
  Really, without this package passing today and then immediately going 
to the Senate to be passed there as well and signed by the President, 
the whole effort to try to rebuild the shore in time for the summer 
season--the jobs, the tourism, the economy related to that--would 
really be seriously jeopardized.
  I would urge that my colleagues adopt not only the initial base bill, 
the Rogers' amendment, but also the Frelinghuysen amendment. The 
Frelinghuysen amendment, which is the additional $33 billion, will let 
us basically do a lot of the shore protection, the beach replenishment, 
the dunes, the flood controls, to prevent damage from a future storm, 
and also provide the Community Development Block Grants, the grants 
that there's a lot of flexibility for the towns so they can go back and 
basically give grants to homeowners as well as small business.
  Mr. Speaker, I have towns that are devastated. We need this bill now.

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