Bill Clinton: “But if I could, to go back to your question about the nonagricultural losses related to the agricultural crisis--as…”

“But if I could, to go back to your question about the nonagricultural losses related to the agricultural crisis--as Secretary Glickman said, some of our emergency programs were funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And we have--obviously, you have a Governor's emergency management person there who works with us on that. Then, we also have some programs funded through the Small Business Administration, some programs funded through the Commerce Department, some programs funded through the Housing and Urban Development Department. We'll just have to do an inventory. And I would urge all of the people who are listening to us through your network there to make sure that their mayors or Members of Congress or State officials have access to Secretary Glickman when he comes down there and give him as complete a picture as you can of what the problems are. And, obviously, we'll do our best to bring to bear whatever resources we can legally provide to help you deal with the terrible difficulties you are in. Today I announced that we were going to give $100 million to Texas and 10 other States just to help with utility bills, with air- conditioning, with fans, with other things, for all these people who don't have adequate cooling. We've had 100 deaths now between--basically between Dallas on the west and then across Arkansas and north Louisiana and then to Tennessee and north Alabama and Mississippi and all in through that 11-State area, all the way over to the East Coast, because of the record heat. And I'm hoping that we can help you with that as well and save some more lives. [Secretary Glickman noted the program was out of time and invited the President to make closing comments.]”