House
Speaker John Boehner promised to hold votes on a $60 billion Hurricane
Sandy disaster relief package over the next two weeks, following his
meeting with Rep. Peter King of New York on Wednesday.
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Congress
is expected to vote Friday on $9.7 billion for the National Flood
Insurance Program and the remaining $50.3 billion will go to the House
floor for a vote on Jan. 15, where it will be split roughly into an
$18-billion bill and a $33-billion amendment. If approved, the Senate
must vote on all the pieces of the aid package, with a final vote
expected the following week, according to Newsday.
Congress
was expected to vote on the disaster relief package Wednesday, but
Boehner, R-Ohio, pulled the bill — aimed at providing funding to
storm-ravaged communities in New Jersey and New York, from Long Beach to
the Hamptons — during a late night session of the “fiscal cliff” vote
Tuesday. Since a new Congress will be sworn in Thursday, the relief
package would have to return to the Senate, where a similar version of
the bill was approved last Friday. The cancelled vote effectively delays certain funds that require authorization, such as FEMA disaster money.
King, R-Seaford, took to the House floor Tuesday and condemned Boehner’s decision to
cancel the vote on the relief package as “absolutely inexcusable,
absolutely indefensible.” But after his meeting with the speaker in the
Capital with other GOP lawmakers from New York and New Jersey on
Wednesday, King provided an explanation for the cancelled vote. Said
King:
"The
speaker had made the decision that with what was going on with the
fiscal cliff it wasn't the right time to bring it up. We agreed to
disagree. Obviously, we made our position clear last night … What's
important as far as I'm concerned is, we got the absolute commitment to
bring the whole $60 billion beginning on Friday and concluding on Jan.
15."
In a joint statement released
Wednesday, Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia,
said: "Getting critical aid to the victims of Hurricane Sandy should be
the first priority in the new Congress, and that was reaffirmed today
with members of the New York and New Jersey delegations.”
Boehner Relents on Sandy Aid Bill
Congress expected to vote on first part of package Friday.
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BSM June 19, 2013 at 01:39 pm
While I agree there seem to be problems in the LB school district, I'm not sure this takes into…Read More account the financial reasons for opting for NCCC. For many families finances, not academic performance dictates the college. I think a more meaningful number would be the percentage of graduating seniors attending ANY college.
Richard Horn June 19, 2013 at 04:01 pm
The smart thing is going to NCC for two years and then transferring to a 4 yr school.. If they can't…Read More cut it at NCC, the parents save a ton of money. NCC is a pretty fine 2 yr school. You get out of it what you put in.
Fred Weintroub June 19, 2013 at 10:45 am
That STUPID Trapeze thing and the fence around it on the lot adjacent to the Boardwalk is going to…Read More cost us Volley Ball players and Beach goers about 30 to 40 parking spaces. Whoever thought this thing up should get their Heads
Charlie Cheswick June 19, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Jimmy Two-Times here, going to get the papers, get the papers...
js June 19, 2013 at 12:18 pm
I SAW A SUV WITH ADVERTISING ON IT FOR A TRAPEZE IN LB--I WAS WHERE IT WAS--
Penny Riordan June 19, 2013 at 10:51 am
Hi Nicholas. Thanks for using the boards. Your post may work better as a blog, where you can add…Read More photos and have a headline. From the homepage, click the 'start blogging' button in green about halfway down. Fill in the fields and then your blog will appear on the homepage. Let me know if you have any questions: penny.riordan@patch.com. Thanks!
AEA President June 18, 2013 at 04:46 pm
yes - by sheer coincidence, their employees work more overtime than ever before in their last 3…Read More years of employment before retirement (as it so happens, their pension is based in part on their last 3 years of employment).
Jack Kett June 18, 2013 at 07:41 pm
Bottom line re: LIRR is that people in suburbs who ride LIRR and Metro North are paying to subsidize…Read More the bankrupt NYC Subways and subsidize minority riders in the outer boros. Its the price we pay to not live in NYC. The subways charges a cheap fixed fare to subsidize low income NYC residents. Its a form of socialism.
Joe June 18, 2013 at 08:19 pm
Jack, racist much? Why don't you go have a tea party with the rest of the little Republican girls?
Eddie June 18, 2013 at 02:55 pm
Great photos, Richard. With joists like those, you could drive a firetruck up that thing!
Eugene Torres June 17, 2013 at 07:57 am
Heron St is like a bombed out war zone. Many of the residents
drive the wrong way to avoid the…Read More potholes at the beginning of the street.
Charlie Cheswick June 18, 2013 at 03:13 pm
"Working" storm drains like the one between Regent & Greenway on Lido Blvd?
Susie Pennachio June 15, 2013 at 09:13 am
yeeeepppp i always see people trying to get thru it or go around it to get onto the beach
Jaime Sumersille (Editor) June 15, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for the notice, Ally! I posted this on Facebook to make people aware! - Jaime Sumersille,…Read More Regional Editor, Nassau County
RackEmUp Gomez June 14, 2013 at 03:55 pm
Those murderers from Boston were students, right?
How about importing some kids from Brooklyn that…Read More need help?
Lets stop being patsys.
Imagine walking thru all this s**t and debris to vote for people that hate you and left you with nothing. Idiots.
They can't fix their homes because insurance companies are low balling their claims (which is a whole other story) Recovery is taking way too long. But they don't care. It has nothing to do with them personally. If a relative of one of them still had no heat, hot water OR home after 67 days, you know that bill would have been the first on the table. Sickening.
No, you can't. God forbid you tell the whole story.
Also why didn't Cuomo, Christie and King speak out before to ensure that this vote took place in a timely fashion, they all knew we have a do nothing congress
Tell him that REGARDLESS of how he votes, you will hold the ENTIRE GOP NY delegation responsible if their redneck scumbag cohorts try to hold up the January 15th vote for the money to fix the boardwalk and the rest of NY & NJ. Tell him that if those pos hacks from the South want to stay in the majority in 2014 they had better cough up that dough. Dont sit back and take this nonsense from these rats. Tell King to tell his boss, that drunken nicotine faced pos Boner that we will put the ENTIRE NY & NJ GOP Congressional delegations out on the street, and thereby wreck their majority, if we dont get what we PAID for...........our insurance claim paid out fairly!