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GOP offers short-term $24B Sandy relief package

Originally published: December 19, 2012 9:06 PM
Updated: December 19, 2012 9:07 PM
By TOM BRUNE tom.brune@newsday.com

Photo credit: Johnny Milano | After superstorm Sandy, at least four of the five houses on Bayview Place, a cul-de-sac off Clocks Boulevard in Massapequa, were so badly damaged they are no longer habitable. (Nov. 9, 2012)

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Wednesday offered a short-term $24 billion relief package for superstorm Sandy recovery as an alternative to the Democrats' $60.4 billion aid bill.

But majority Democrats said they plan to vote to reject the alternative aid package as soon as Thursday.

The GOP alternative strips out nearly $13 billion in mitigation for future storms, $15 billion in...

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