Letter of the Day (Jan. 30): Congress

Updated: January 30, 2013 - 2:59 PM

An "emergency relief measure" took three months to pass through Congress.

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James Connelly, 70, surveys the damage in November after riding out Hurricane Sandy in Bayville, New Jersey.

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While President Obama has promised to sign the measure for storm victims in the Northeast ("Congress OKs $50.5 billion in Sandy storm relief," Jan. 29), I would not call it an "emergency relief measure" when it took three months for it to pass through Congress.

NORMAN HOLEN, RICHFIELD

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