| New York City’s school system was deeply affected by the attacks on the World Trade Center, but federal recovery funds were delayed and restricted because of bureaucratic red tape at FEMA. I led efforts with members of the New York delegation to achieve full disaster recovery assistance for the school system and in October 2002 the Bush Administration announced that it would reimburse the New York Board of Education $80.5 million to make up for lost instructional time resulting from the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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