The scale of damage wrought upon Northeast by the super storm Sandy helped push for a bipartisan effort in Congress to get an aid package without any spending cuts attached to it. Congress on January 28, 2013 sent Barack Obama a $50.5 billion measure for his signature. Earlier in January, Congress passed and Obama signed another measure of $9.7 billion to replenish the National Flood Insurance Program. Sandy came ashore on October 29, 2012, and was responsible for more than 130 deaths and billions of dollar in property damage.
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