"it seems to me a one-year period is time people cannot afford to waste"

In this piece, Congressman Joseph Cao spoke about the existing FEMA appeals process, which takes a year on average:

"If children are waiting for a school to reopen, or ill people are waiting for a hospital to reopen, it seems to me a one-year period is time people cannot afford to waste," he said.

That's interesting...coming from a Congressman who has failed to show any empathy for the people of Lower Mid-City who are being displaced by the proposed hospitals, and who has not supported the RMJM Hillier plan for re-opening Charity Hospital - which could have restored medical care to New Orleans more rapidly and for less cost than the current plan to build hospitals in Lower Mid-City.