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Rick Scott calls for Senate to reconvene to consider Helene disaster aid
The Hill ^ | 09/30/24 4:26 PM ET | by Aris Folley -

Posted on 09/30/2024 5:39:25 PM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Monday called for the Senate to “immediately reconvene” once damage assessments are completed so lawmakers can consider an emergency aid package in response to the devastation left by Hurricane Helene.

“Floridians are resilient, but the response and recovery from this storm demands the full and immediate support of government at every level to get families and businesses back to normal,” Scott said in a statement.

“While I know from my experience with previous hurricanes that FEMA and SBA damage assessments take time, I am today urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to immediately reconvene the U.S. Senate when those assessments are completed so that we can pass the clean supplemental disaster funding bill and other disaster relief legislation, like my Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act, needed to ensure the full recovery of families in all impacted communities.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: ricksnott

1 posted on 09/30/2024 5:39:25 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Biden doesn’t want to touch it.
Schumer doesn’t want to touch it.

Harris is just raising money and hasn’t thought about the hurricane yet.


2 posted on 09/30/2024 5:46:01 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: RandFan

They couldn’t get the Dem political nominee roster to show up* so how can they get vote hungry politicians in DC to leave the rubber chicken fundraising dinners and phony smiling photo ops with locals in battleground districts?

It’s just a catastrophic loss of lives and homes. /S

* Joe said he will try to go Wednesday. Kamala and Coach Tim Walz didn’t change their schedules. Walz would have to again set down the weapon he carried in war before going down there.


3 posted on 09/30/2024 5:47:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! )
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To: ClearCase_guy

I think Harris was asked about her feelings about the disaster victims and said “You know, I was a girl who grew up in a middle class neighborhood and I once worked at McDonald’s.”


4 posted on 09/30/2024 5:48:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! )
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To: RandFan

They should Zelenskyy.

He’s loaded.


5 posted on 09/30/2024 5:58:41 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: RandFan

This. Instead of Comer announcing a new rabbit hole we got him now stunt.


6 posted on 09/30/2024 6:33:08 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: RandFan

This isn’t something new. I was completely underwhelmed by the don’t-give-a-F attitude displayed by all levels of government following Beryl, and that was only a Cat 1. The only county emergency management vehicle I saw was at an Arby’s 4 days after the storm. Never saw any state or federal response. About a month later, we found out we were too white for FEMA assistance.


7 posted on 09/30/2024 6:34:40 PM PDT by txeagle
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[Never saw any state or federal response. About a month later, we found out we were too white for FEMA assistance.]

Ah. Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama was still on the throne via Democrat Joe Biden.


8 posted on 10/01/2024 1:23:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RandFan

HELLO!!! SCHMUER IS PURE EVIL, so he WON’T DO IT!!


9 posted on 10/01/2024 3:12:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Good for Scott. They need to devise recovery plans for the whole country, but this is a good start.


10 posted on 10/01/2024 5:36:05 AM PDT by Sarosa1776
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To: RandFan

Mr Scott, stop spending money we don’t have!


11 posted on 10/01/2024 9:10:57 AM PDT by stockpirate (A group of baboons is referred to as a "Congress" of baboons.)
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