Four Texas House Members Voted Against Harvey Relief...for Texas
Hurricane Harvey cut an impressive swath over the Texas Gulf Coast and left behind damage that will take us years to get over, which is why Congress stepped up and kicked the state some disaster relief money this week.
However, while Congress has approved a bill giving millions in disaster relief aid to Houston and the other towns and cities along the Texas Gulf Coast that were devastated by Harvey, not everybody in the Texas Congressional delegation got on board and supported this plan.
Earlier this week, the House of Reprensentatives initially approved an $8 billion standalone Harvey relief bill, but then a new bill was cobbled together when President Donald Trump struck a deal with top Democrats Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, and her Senate counterpart, Charles Schumer. Some say that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may never get over the shock.
So the deal allowed Harvey aid to get through the works of Congress — the Senate also subsequently almost doubled the short-term aid bill, kicking nearly $15 billion to help Texas rebuild — but it also irked a lot of Republicans.
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Yep, that's right. Actual Texas members of Congress somehow voted against giving the state relief aid.
While senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz backed the bill, four Texas Republicans voted against it: U.S. representatives Joe Barton of Ennis, Jeb Hensarling of Dallas, Sam Johnson of Richardson and Mac Thornberry of Clarendon. Apparently, these guys may not have gotten the memo that the Texas Gulf Coast is also an actual part of Texas.
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/four-texas-gop-congressmen-vote-against-bill-for-hurricane-harvey-disaster-relief-9773645
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