Rep. Jackson Lee: I’m Introducing a Harvey Relief Bill Asking for ‘$152 Billion’

‘And frankly, it may go up even more’

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KORNACKI: "Texas governor Greg Abbott said the funding will far exceed the funding dollars provided after Katrina. Sheila Jackson is joining me, thank you for joining us, congresswoman. You have governor Christie there in New Jersey who went through with with Sandy a few years ago. You have Ted Cruz, the reluck stance of some members of Congress to go along with the Sandy plan, is that going to factor at all in deciding how much money Texas gets in the wake of this tragedy?"
JACKSON LEE: "I had like to look to the future and the future is this is a catastrophic incident no one has seen. I am sympathetic to every disaster, wherever the American people are suffering we in the United States Congress got to get our act together. And frankly, I think what I hear from those in Washington, my colleagues have called me nonstop, I spoke to the speaker of the house, the democratic leadership and what they said is there will be no divide, no sunshine between them on what Texas needs. And I'm going to take them at their word. Right now I'm writing a bill of aid for house that I hope to introduce for $152 billion. And frankly, it may go up even more. And I welcome the support of our two United States senators and their leadership and I look forward to the bipartisan leadership. Let me tell you, people are dying, people are still needing to be rescued. As the mayor of Beaumont said they're underwater. People have been heroic, we lost a wonderful member of the Houston police department. Who left his home and said, I've got to go to work. Tragically he lost his life. We lost that wonderful family in my constituent area. So I feel the pain of people who are still suffering. Let me say this, we're probably losing 30 to 40,000 homes, hundreds of thousands of cars. These numbers are going to be astronomical. We have no time for anyone dividing on the funding for the state of Texas."

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