Grimm facing uphill battle getting Sandy relief bill passed
With the House of Representatives set to vote on a $51 billion Hurricane Sandy relief package on Jan. 15, U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Brooklyn-Staten Island) said he’s spending nearly every waking moment trying to persuade his colleagues to vote for the bill.
“Failure is not an option on this,” Grimm told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. “We need the money to help our communities and our small businesses.”
Grimm admitted that he is facing an uphill battle in his efforts to garner support for the aid bill among his fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill. “There are some members who fully get it. But there are others who are dug into the positions they took long before Sandy. The talk about the need to offset the costs,” he said.