Jim McCrery Quotes

"What is being done is fairly massive. There will be temporary field offices in various areas around the disaster zone, ... We'll be trying to get word to refugees that are staying in shelters that they can visit or call these temporary field offices to get their checks. As you can imagine, it's a rather difficult proposition to get that information out to the people who need it."

"Any public entity that has been deprived of revenue because of the disaster, should be looked at, in terms of some sort of assistance to get them over the temporary need."

"the behavior of the minority ... warranted the sergeant at arms being called."

"I'm trying to understand it, because I have to explain it to my colleagues, ... We reached the compromise (in the first tax relief bill) with the understanding that this issue would remain open."