mr. speaker, that the attitude of the people that were affected, me is inspirational. i mean the rains came down and the floods came up, you know, like we sung in bible class about noah. the floods came up, flooded, those floods have disappeared. the sun has come out. there's a rainbow. over the area. and people are going and putting their lives back together. there's nothing that can defeat the human spirit. and we appreciate congress quickly spending relief money, $15 billion to the area. this is a disaster that some have estimated will cost the houston economy over $100 billion, i don't know how much it is. but we will do what we can here in congress to make sure that we can get aid to people like in texas, people that are going to be affected in florida, by the hurricane there. and we appreciate our first responders, our civilian volunteers, and military, national guard, the coast guard, all of our military resources. the navy even put two ships off the texas coast to bring in supplies and help. and all the volunteers, first responders, the firefighters, the e.m.s., the police. and other agencies that came together to work together to de