Thursday, January 3, 2013

National crisis averted: House to vote on pork-filled Sandy relief bill by January 15

An anxious America waits and wonders: Can New York and New Jersey hang on for two more weeks?
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner has assured lawmakers that the House will vote on $60 billion in aid related to Superstorm Sandy by January 15, a group of lawmakers from New York and New Jersey told reporters Wednesday afternoon…
The lawmakers met with Boehner Wednesday afternoon and then made the announcement.
“As far as I’m concerned … it was an extremely positive” meeting, said U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-New York, who earlier Wednesday called Boehner’s Tuesday move a “knife in the back.”

Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/01/02/national-crisis-averted-house-to-vote-on-pork-filled-sandy-relief-bill-by-january-15-peter-king-to-support-boehner-for-speaker/

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