Mike McCaul: ‘I Voted In Good Conscience To Help Save the People of My State’

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CAVUTO: "And with us house homeland security, joining us from D.C., chairman, it seems like just a week ago we were chatting what’s going on in your neck of the woods in Texas and here we are in Florida, and maybe Jose is next. You talk about back to back to back storms in the hurricane season, is FEMA able to handle this in general or services and funding running dry, able to deal with it?"
McCAUL: "Well, FEMA did a fantastic job in response to my state’s disaster with Harvey and I think the president signing the advanced directive is helpful, we had the same scenario play out here in Florida and behind me are the representatives of FEMA, representing all the sectors who are working with the people on the ground. With pre-positioned access after that was signed waiting out the storm. One the storm blows over, they will immediately go in and start to do search, rescue and recovery and rebuilding. So to your point, it’s hard to imagine yet another hurricane of this magnitude hitting the United States. The Congress, we just voted yesterday to appropriate 15.5 billion dollars for disaster relief fund for FEMA, both for Harvey, but also for this hurricane Irma as it hits the Florida coast as we speak."