JUST KEEP LASHING AT US......and we will keep asking, "where are the cuts in spending to offset these emergency expenses?"

The rumors flying are all anti-Republican. This is a really bad optics moment for the pathetic leadership of the House. Have they done the hard work of pointing out that the bill was full of pork? No. They think they live in a bubble. That´s why they´re so ineffective.

People are getting their news from the mainstream media, they aren´t going to learn the facts unless they learn them from Boehner and Cantor. That they haven´t figured that out yet is an outrage.

Boehner must be tired of playing Santa. Now Obama has notified the MSM that he will not negotiate on the debt limit.... that congress needs to pay the bills they created !

Is this the senate bill that is loaded with pork?

Sandy hit all blue states. What´s the advantage to the gop of passing anything on this?

That $60B Sandy bill passed by the Senate is larded up with pork. Those tax and spend demonrats can´t bring themselves to pass even a hurricane relief bill without larding it up.

It´s Obama and Reid´s fault for loading up the bill with pork and adding to the deficit.Nobody really know what the gov´ts dollar amount should be after private insurance claims are cleared.It seems to me $20-$25 billion should be enough.


The left always takes advantage of a sympathetic issue to fill their own coffers or pass a bill that further denigrates the Constitution.

But I agree,there can´t be anybody worse at PR than the republicans.

We way overspent on Katrina to knock down charges of racism and the average resident there is still stuck in a poverty rathole.Crooked contractors,politicians and bureaucrats had their pockets well lined with the misdirected spending.Landlords couldn´t get money to rehab their apartments,so you had people stuck in FEMA trailers for years.

We´re blindly throwing billions at the economy when all we need is the gov´t to get the hell out of the way and let the free markets work.Obama hamstrings the private sector which gives him the excuse to demand more government spending.

We shouldn´t spend a single dime on Sandy relief. We can´t afford it. $60 billion buys a lot of Solyndras!

The emergency bill that took 3 months to pass is now a priority

Well, I guess the republicans have finally figured out their position in our government. Everything that goes wrong will be blamed on them and they are to shut up and do what they are told to do by their betters....democrats. And not listen to their FORMER constituents (who would stay a registered republican after this?).

Ditto #9. Plus this bill is loaded with pork beyond belief. If I must say, these people should stand on their own. I´m sure insurance and flood insurance is allowed in New York and New Jersey. It´s beyond me why someone living so close to shore would not have these. As for the subways, etc. That is the responsibility of the state. I see only the interstate highways should be in the bill. Eveything else....you are on your own.

Maybe the House will take up the Sandy bill AFTER the Senate takes up the 27 plus passed House bills. Maybe the House will take up the Sandy bill when Ried allows a vote on House passed budget bills.