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Updated 7:30pm ET:
The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday night (click here) approved an additional $33.7 billion in funding for emergency spending on recovery efforts aimed at helping those devastated by Hurricane Sandy. The final vote came after the House had passed another $17 billion in spending earlier in the day.
The approval of the $50.7 billion came only after political debates over spending that does not directly go to the areas impacted by the super storm.
The House GOP leadership carefully orchestrated a multi-stage process designed to permit Republican members to vote for some Sandy aid, but not the full $60.4 billion the Senate OK’d last year, if they objected to that much spending. By designing the process in this way, the GOP leadership made it highly likely that the total package will ultimately become law after the Senate acts next week....
Healing the people of New Jersey is up to Governor Christi. I am confident he will succeed. He has fought hard for New Jersey, he won't stop now. New Jersey has always been a 'donor' state. It contributes more to the USA Treasury than it receives from federal programs. We, as a nation, cannot ignore that fact. The people of New Jersey are great people. They have suffered enough.
The USA can't put emergency relief on the backburner.
The National Debt has to be addressed, but, depriving our citizens of their economy is not the way to do it. Seriously.
Healing the people of New Jersey is up to Governor Christi. I am confident he will succeed. He has fought hard for New Jersey, he won't stop now. New Jersey has always been a 'donor' state. It contributes more to the USA Treasury than it receives from federal programs. We, as a nation, cannot ignore that fact. The people of New Jersey are great people. They have suffered enough.
The USA can't put emergency relief on the backburner.
The National Debt has to be addressed, but, depriving our citizens of their economy is not the way to do it. Seriously.