Early Saturday, Senate rejected the House's bill to provide more funding for disaster relief. The bill would provide the Federal Emergency Management Aid (FEMA) with enough funding to last until mid-November. Without the bill, FEMA has predicted to run out of funding as early as Monday this week. Some say passing this bill is the only way to get immediate assistance to American families suffering from recent disasters.
The most recent version of the House bill is attempting to redirect the cost of disaster relief by getting rid of a separate loan program in the Energy Department that promotes such things as energy-efficient cars. Democrats are furious, saying that the department creates thousands of jobs.
Hopefully the Government can start learning how to compromise, so that we can provide American families with the relief families are so desperately seeking.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/23/MNAM1L8NJS.DTL
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