On the recordSeptember 16, 1999
Well, that's one thing that Governor Hunt asked me about yesterday, and I am looking at that, because the general disaster assistance performers tends to be targeted to the big, grow-crop places in the Middle West primarily--not exclusively--as is natural, because that's where a lot of the big dollar-volume losses have been. So we've got to go back and look, now, and see what we're doing, because we've got not only this flooding but also, in this part of the country, we've had the biggest drought that these farmers had ever had. So most of them--not most but a large number of farmers from Maryland north, in this country, had lost their crops before the flood came. So we need to look at that, and we will now go back, obviously, down to the Carolinas, and go upward and see where we are. And I'll do my best to work with Congress to get appropriate relief for them. Thank you.
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