Yes, it is apparent that you continuously post things without taking 5 minutes into looking at the opposition. DeSantis was part of a group of congressmen who rejected the bill because it was not a fiscally appropriate emergency aid bill.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/17/us-rep-ron-desantis-defensive-after-disaster-vote/15825475007/June 17, 2013 - ' In one of his first official acts, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis voted against a bill to provide $9.7 billion in flood insurance aid for Hurricane Sandy victims.
"The problem with the Sandy package was, if you look at it, only 30 percent of it was going to be spent in the first two years," DeSantis said in an interview recently at his St. Augustine office. "It actually appropriated money out to 2020 and 2021, things that could not in any way be said to be emergency spending. It just was so much extraneous stuff."
...The opposition to the Sandy aid came from 67 Republicans, including DeSantis and Ted Yoho of Gainesville. Both DeSantis, a lawyer, and Yoho, a veterinarian, had strong support in their elections from tea party groups. They were the only two representatives from Florida to vote against the Sandy aid bill.
DeSantis said he would have supported a leaner bill.
"So what we tried to do, we wanted to do a package," he said. "It would have been a relief package that focused on immediate relief, not spending down the line that's not necessary. We thought that would have been a better way to go about it."
The bill allowed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pay out claims to those who held federal flood insurance.
..."So, I never made the point of saying we shouldn't do anything," DeSantis said recently. "You also had the New York state government coming into Congress saying, 'Hey, look at all these buildings that got damaged.' And we asked, OK, what is insurance picking up on this? And they said, 'Well, we didn't insure them, we didn't think they'd ever be a problem.' So, in that situation, we want to help people, I think, as the last line of defense, but you don't want to basically reward them for not doing the responsible thing. So I think a lot of people who have looked at it have acknowledged that there was more spending in it than what needed to be done, and it was not an appropriate vehicle, with excessive spending and extraneous money. For example, they were refurbishing the Smithsonian, and there was highway spending and different things like that [in the plan]."
DeSantis said he doesn't always support the way Congress spends money.
"In Washington, the way it works is this: I can file a bill tomorrow, about whatever you want," he said. "You just tell me, I can spend money on this or that. But chances are, it's not going to go anywhere. So, what people look for are vehicles that are definitely going to move. We knew something was going to pass. So when you see that, people say 'Oh, I can add this or that,' and it kind of goes from there. We're just trying to change the philosophy and the way Washington operates." '