(Bloomberg) – Key lawmakers started a push Monday for Congress to provide emergency disaster funds for Texas, as the scale of damage from Hurricane Harvey became apparent.
"We will need to put together an emergency supplemental appropriations bill," Republican John Culberson, a senior member of the House spending panel who represents Houston, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. "No one could have ever predicted or expected a catastrophe of this magnitude to descend on the Houston area."
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