Reopen, Federal Emergency Management Agency's Mortgage and Rental Assistance program.

Resolution calling upon the Congress of the United States to reopen, and duly publicize, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Mortgage and Rental Assistance program, which expired by law on May 30, 2002 and whose special 9/11 implementation was terminated on January 31, 2003, and to extend the program's deadline for filing for benefits for an additional six months, as it relates to New York City workers suffering financial hardship from the consequences of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and, also, to expand the program's geographic boundaries to include all affected New York City workers living and working in any of the City's five boroughs, and, furthermore, to permanently reestablish and reauthorize funding for the Mortgage and Rental Assistance program to address major disasters in the future by passing H.R. 827, also known as "the Mortgage and Rental Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2003", introduced by Representative Carolyn B. Maloney.