Republican senators only like federal relief when it benefits their own state

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Republican senators only like federal relief when it benefits their own state

Matt Levin at the Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Republican-senators-only-like-federal-relief-when-6292025.php#photo-8055130

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No state received more federal relief than Texas in 2011 and 2012. Yet the state's senators joined other Republicans in voting against a bill providing disaster aid to the East Coast after Hurricane Sandy ravaged the region in 2012. See the US states that receive the most disaster aid, and if their senators were will to help other states.

Senator Ted Cruz joined other leaders in a devastated Houston on Tuesday to observe a city ravaged by rains and deadly flooding. He toured Central Texas the next day, where Memorial Day storms caused several deaths and damaged hundreds of homes.

The White House hopeful described the state as hurting. So Cruz asked for something Texas does more than anywhere else in the country. He called for federal relief to kickstart the state's recovery.




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[Thinkingabout]

1. Probably some of his neighbors flooded again, he isn't smart on his voting.

As a gulf coast senator, living in the area subject to storms you would think he would get his head out of his ass sometimes and know what is going on. I would have never voted against Sandy aid after all the storm aid has gone to the gulf coast.