[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 8 (Wednesday, January 15, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PROMPT RELIEF TO VICTIMS IN LOS ANGELES

  (Mr. KILEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KILEY of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise to stress the importance 
of providing prompt relief to the victims of the ongoing disaster and 
nightmare in Los Angeles.
  The relief measure should include direct support for rebuilding and 
recovery along with safeguards to assure that that support gets to 
victims as quickly and as efficaciously as possible.
  Mr. Speaker, there will also need to be a thoroughgoing Federal 
inquiry into the causes of this catastrophe and into political failures 
that enabled this catastrophe.
  We will need to use every tool that we have to inject some common 
sense into how California manages its forests and water supply, but 
that should not stand in the way of getting immediate relief to the 
victims. These folks have already paid an extraordinarily high price 
for the failures of their government, and they should not be punished 
again.

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