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And we may have federal Sandy relief money to spend on resilience now – but what happens when that's money's gone?

That honor might go to New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte and Pennsylvania's Patrick Toomey, both Republicans, who each requested federal Sandy aid for their states before voting against the Sandy aid legislation.

The formal purpose of the speech was to announce that $817 million of federal Sandy funds — about 70% of those awarded to the state — had been dispersed to people in need, but the event was also a chance for Christie to attempt to talk about something that was not scandal-related.

The governor is counting on billions of dollars in federal Sandy relief funding to boost construction jobs and help communities that lost part of their tax when homes were destroyed and businesses closed.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo was in his 39th floor office above Third Avenue in Manhattan, after meeting with corporate executives to ask for help lobbying Congress for federal Hurricane Sandy aid, when he heard the news: A gunman had opened fire in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children.

And a separate federal post-Sandy task force has required that any structure rebuilt with any of the $50 billion in disaster funds should be raised to one foot above the most recent federal flood guidance.Last year Congress required the insurance subsidy that the federal government has long offered to householders who live and build on flood plains to be phased out.

WASHINGTON — With state and local governments handling the bulk of the immediate response to Hurricane Sandy, federal officials here were left with one critical role: bankrolling the effort.

Visiting New York City, Shaun Donovan,  the nation's housing secretary and President Obama's appointee  to oversee the post-Hurricane Sandy federal recovery effort, said on Thursday that he expected most of the damaged areas along the East Coast to be rebuilt but not necessarily as they were before.

In New York City, the M.T.A. received four billion dollars in federal money for Sandy recovery and resiliency work, which it has spent on innovative deployable flood barriers, such as the Flex Gate and the Resilient Tunnel Plug, more water-resistant submarine cable, two new pump trains, and structural improvements to the tunnels.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Federal agencies incorporated the best available science and data, including sea level rise projections and climate resilience, into project planning and design.

He recognized heroes in the wake of the storm and renewed his push for Congress to approve $60 billion in federal aid for Sandy relief.