{"id":89,"date":"2013-01-29T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/?p=89"},"modified":"2014-08-27T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:31:47","slug":"senate-passes-hurricane-sandy-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/2013\/01\/29\/senate-passes-hurricane-sandy-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Passes Hurricane Sandy Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Senate voted 62-36 to approve the House version of the Hurricane Sandy Bill. The $51 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The Act will provide $16 billion for Housing and Urban Development Department community development block grants. Of the $16 billion, approximately $12 billion will be shared among Hurricane Sandy victims as well as those from other federally declared disasters in 2011-2013. The remaining $4 billion is solely for Hurricane Sandy-related projects. The Act will also provide $11 billion to the Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s disaster relief aid fund for providing shelter, restoring power and other storm-interrupted utility services and meeting other immediate needs arising from Super Storm Sandy and other disasters. The Act will also provide $10 billion to repair the New York and New Jersey transit systems as well as make the systems more resistant to future storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Senate voted 62-36 to approve the House version of the Hurricane Sandy Bill. The $51 billion aid package for Hurricane Sandy victims is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The Act will provide $16 billion for Housing and Urban Development Department community development block grants. Of the $16 billion, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/2013\/01\/29\/senate-passes-hurricane-sandy-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senate Passes Hurricane Sandy Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,56,12],"ppma_author":[89],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-affordable-housing-2","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-momjian"],"authors":[{"term_id":89,"user_id":168,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ajmomjian","display_name":"Arthur J. Momjian","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2014\/07\/momjianart-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/newmarketslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}