Richard Durbin actually said...

Federal budgets rarely set aside adequate resources in anticipation of disasters, and instead, rely on emergency supplemental funding reques...

the Gulf of Mexico dead zone is a particular concern because it threatens valuable commercial and recreational gulf fisheries, that generate...

I've had the good fortune of meeting a lot of Illinois farmers, which is your family background.

It's not my part of the world, but I assume this has an impact on the gulf economy?