Boehner agrees to take Sandy aid vote this week

By Associated Press ANDREW MIGA, Associated Press LARRY MARGASAK (AP)

Created: Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:15 a.m. CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) – Under intense pressure from angry Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner agreed Wednesday to a vote this week on aid for Superstorm Sandy recovery.

The speaker will schedule a vote Friday for $9 billion for the national flood insurance program and another on Jan. 15 for a remaining $51 billion in the package, Republican Rep. Peter King of New York said after emerging from a meeting with Boehner and GOP lawmakers from New York and New Jersey. The votes will be taken by the new Congress that will be sworn in Thursday.

King left the session with Boehner without the anger that led him to rip into the speaker Tuesday night.

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