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Rep. John Carter, (R-Texas), on New York’s request for aid to help with the damage from Hurricane Sandy.
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-- -- you never wanna look heartless and a crisis we don't want to look foolish either do and a lot of folks scratching their heads wondered about.
Governor Andrew Cuomo's thirteen billion dollar request.
For federal aid posts hurricane sandy a lot of votes on -- okay how we came up with that figure and date.
How he would spend that figure even if we got the -- -- congress senate Appropriations Committee member -- -- congress and I I don't see and it covered myself what's going on around here lot of damage I don't know how you put a thirty billion dollar figure to it in this area.
Be that as it may.
I do know.
How money doesn't end up going to its source and I would worry about products.
You.
I think that's again that's a good commented we look at the history of how we have handled disasters similar to this.
We have to have compassion for those people who were injured and -- that that part of our our country is devastated and I think everybody congress does.
Well we have -- responsibility.
Yet even more so today then.
Maybe in the past to look at every -- every nickel dime and quarter in Seattle is money's going to be spent.
That's a big ticket number and we need to see the particular.
So we'll Woodward you know again this this sitting in the congress and probably.
Horrible cynic but I'm we'll -- New York running in this latest here a billion dollar deficit and I'm thinking -- what.
What's to stop them for taking that money and using it for deficit relief are also the things that have nothing.
To do with the storm and storm damage in other words what kind of strings are attached to emergency aid -- out of Washington.
For branded I mean.
How do you track -- Well that's a difficult that's a difficult question I tracking we have satisfied it's my understanding.
Around seven billion dollars for FEMA right now.
There's an additional.
Something like five billion that.
Could be made available for this disaster there we're -- now at thirty billion dollar ticket which right there raises in my opinion red flag instead.
That can't answer the question that you just ask.
What is this far there's some story about replacing the grid.
I think that's not kind of a stretch.
May be there are gonna use it to pay off their deficit spending.
That's not appropriate that's not what we're here -- we're not here to be catch -- over everything we're here to help.
-- had a little hey how does he get it's are in other words he's got it.
Do have a democratic cities got -- a democratic president friend of the president on.
Is -- much.
Difficulty getting the money maybe not thirty billion how does that work how -- the approval process.
Place.
Gotta be applied to -- a theme as the right now it's my understand he has seven zillion available right now.
That would be bodies.
Over 49 -- a whole lot don't match mine and so therefore it's gonna take action on the other Appropriations Committee.
To approve the additional spending and I think there's going to be real questions.
Are asking horrible -- you a blank check.
He's got tell us how this is going to be spent.
And I think -- come -- -- want to have some.
Some kind of oversight over we have -- the oversight committee then we'd be looking closely -- -- is part of our problem these big part of our problem.
And we've got to be.
Helpful.
Or not here to build a -- -- who volume loss as your roof.
Congress and thank you very much John Carter Republican find state.
-- Texas.
