Obama at FEMA: "We still have a long way to go"
Source: CBS News
Mr. Obama, speaking after a briefing about ongoing recovery efforts at the FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C., emphasized his commitment to restoring power, pumping flooded areas, removing debris, and attending to the needs of those impacted by the storm, which ravaged New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut this week. He noted that the military had been called in to help hasten that process.
"We still have a long way to go to make sure that the people of New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, and some of the surrounding areas get their basic needs taken care of and that we start moving back to normalcy," Mr. Obama said. "There's nothing more important than us getting this right. And we're going to spend as much time, effort and energy as necessary to make sure that all the people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut know that the entire country is behind them in this difficult recovery effort."
He added: "We are going to put not just 100 percent, but 120 percent behind making sure that they get the resources they need to rebuild and recover."
The president lauded the hard work of first responders in the immediate aftermath of the storm, and noted that relief efforts would start to focus on efforts to give victims a resumed sense of normalcy.
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You have to think of Romney promising to privitize FEMA or saying that the last thing we need are more police and firefighters at a time like this.
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