Sandy relief should not have included money for salmon fisheries in Alaska, that would have helped pass it.
At least $17 billion in the bill was targeted towards emergency spending to assist victims of the Oct. 29 super storm that struck the East Coast and killed 140 people. The House added another $33 billion in unrelated spending that includes $10 million for FBI salaries, $2 billion for road construction across the country, as well as funding for the Head Start program, and roof repairs at the Smithsonian.
House Republicans were successful in cutting some pork, including $500 million for weather forecasting and to help create an ocean zoning plan, one of Obamas pet projects.
$50B for Sandy relief plus pork clears final hurdle - Conservative News
In a remarkable turn of events, everyone got the pork and there is still no relief for Sandy victims.
The fertilizer factory is a private company and they and their insurance company should be responsible for all damage they cause
Texas does not deserve taxpayer welfare
Yup. I had heard that this place had past safety violations. If this is the case, then in my mind they are 100% at fault and should have to pay.
They had one violation and that wasn't a safety violation, about ten years ago. The plant was an exceptionally safe plant.
So far, the evidence shows that the cause of the plant explosion was heat build up in a rail car carrying some type of ammonia substance that caused it to explode setting off a chain reaction so the plant wasn't at fault at all.