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发信人: eightmile (红脖子的言行liberal的心), 信区: USANews
标 题: 对自己人也太狠了点
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 3 14:32:48 2013, 美东)
http://mashable.com/2013/01/02/peter-king-sandy/
After Speaker of the House John Boehner failed to call a vote on a Hurricane
Sandy relief aid bill following the House's approval of a law to avert the
Fiscal Cliff, many New York and New Jersey members of Congress were furious.
Among the most vociferous was New York Republican Congressman Peter King,
who all but threatened to leave the Republican Party over Congress' failure
to act.
King, in a Wednesday morning interview with CNN, accused Speaker Boehner for
the House's inaction on the Sandy bill. The video has since been widely
circulating on the web.
"I do, Speaker Bohner was the one," King said when asked if Boehner was to
blame. "He walked off the floor, he refused to tell us why, he refused to
give us any indication or warning whatsoever.
"I'm saying that anyone from New York or New Jersey who contributes one
penny to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee should have their
head examined," added King. "I would not give one penny to these people
based on what they did to us last night."
When asked if he would leave the Republican Party over the incident, King
didn't rule it out:
"I'm going to do what I have to do, I'm going to be independent-minded," he
said. "John Kennedy said party loyalty demands too much. Sometimes you have
to give the benefit of the doubt to your party, we are a two-party system.
But I'm over that. Because, at the very least, you're expected to be treated
fairly."
Bohener will be meeting with House members from New York and New Jersey
Wednesday afternoon.
President Barack Obama released a statement Wednesday morning urging the
House to pass the aid package. Chris Christie, Republican Governor of New
Jersey and Andrew Cuomo, Democratic Governor of New York, also demanded the
House pass the bill in a joint statement Wednesday morning. Christie is
holding a press conference about the bill at 2 p.m. EST.
The Sandy aid bill being pursued by King and others in the House would have
given $60 billion to refill the coffers of a quickly emptying national flood
insurance program. |
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