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Tom Rinaldo

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6. 2 and 1/2 months after a major disaster is not the time to shave "Pork" from disaster response funds

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:48 PM

Jan 2013

Two weeks after, maybe. Every day in Congress there are ample opportunities to strip "pork" from legislation for anyone wanting to "make a stand". Sandy Disaster victims have suffered for too long already without Congress stepping up for them. The Republican House is self governed - nothing stopped them from passing fully adaquate clean funding for Sandy disaster victims in a timely matter. It was not a priority of the Republican House to do so.

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I'd say you're calling it about right. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #1

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Sorry NewHere112233 Jan 2013 #7

2 and 1/2 months after a major disaster is not the time to shave "Pork" from disaster response funds Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #6

2 1/2 Months NewHere112233 Jan 2013 #8

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