how would they do that, then, kellie mejdrich? are they talking about an emergency supplemental bill. ? kellie: it depends on bill. there will be a healthy amount of money in the disaster relief fund. it is quite possible with profound flooding that we have hurricane,se of this that those funds could be exhausted quickly. what happens is in the aftermath of the storms, fema, in partnership with state and local governments, is responsible for putting together a disaster needs assessment. there are other things fema can do in the interim to open it up to small businesses. the caps will start opening and the levels of funding are going to start draining. then what we need to wait for is a white house request for supplemental funds for hurricane relief. once that is sent to the house, then it gets processed into a bill by the appropriators and that is when it goes through the house and senate and get to the process and gets to the president. that would be interesting and also very procedural kind of issue that we will watch in the next

we also have kate irby, mcclatchy newspaper congressional reporter, and kellie mejdrich, appropriations budget reporter with cq roll call. senator, kate irby is going to kick off with the conversation about judge brett kavanaugh. kate: the new yorker came out this morning detailing an alleged attempted sexual abuse by kavanaugh in high school, a woman is alleging that he held her down when he was 17 and attempted to sexually abuse her. i am wondering what your take is on this. do you think this confirmation process of judge kavanaugh should continue until more evidence is found, or do you think this is disqualifying? sen. leahy: i have not seen "the new yorker" story. my concern on the process is that it has been rammed through. this is the same republican leadership that for years, stalled any action on a supreme court nominee. it stopped merrick garland who would have been confirmed overwhelmingly with both republican and democratic votes. they wanted to see how the elections came out and allow president trump to nominate whomever he wanted. now they are rushing to get done before the

we also have kate irby, mcclatchy newspaper congressional reporter, and kellie mejdrich, appropriationsget reporter with cq roll call. senator, kate irby is going to kick off with the conversation about judge brett kavanaugh. kate: the new yorker came out this morning detailing an