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Rep. David Price, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security appropriations subcommittee, on Thursday called Majority Leader Eric Cantor's statement that disaster relief funds should be coupled with spending cuts "abhorrent."

“I have no sympathy for Mr. Cantor’s lament that this is a ‘political’ story,” Price (D-N.C.) said. “This is a story about the core values that inform the Republican Party's policy decisions. That they would even contemplate holding emergency relief hostage to the demands of the Tea Party Caucus is abhorrent."

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