A bill providing $17 billion to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy passed the House on Tuesday afternoon with a large bipartisan majority, three weeks after Northeast Republicans excoriated the chamber's GOP leaders for failing to vote on storm aid before the end of the last Congress.
An amendment introduced by Tea Party-allied conservatives requiring across-the-board cuts to defense and domestic programs to pay for the storm aid was supported by a majority of Republicans but was defeated 258-162 with a combination of GOP and Democratic votes.
The $17 billion relief bill will provide more than $5 billion for repairing transit systems in New York and New Jersey, and $5.4 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, which provides cash grants directly to storm victims.
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