Angie Craig: “I now have the privilege of serving on the Appropriations Committee, and I must tell you that it is my intent to support…”

“I now have the privilege of serving on the Appropriations Committee, and I must tell you that it is my intent to support a supplemental appropriation that has disaster relief in it--for the citizens of North Dakota, yes, but also for the citizens of Midvale, ID, my hometown. In early January of this year, the national television cameras did not sweep across the 4 feet of water that surged through my hometown, that displaced 40 residents, destroyed homes, took the one small general store and put it out of business. I flew over it a few days later in a helicopter to see utter devastation like I had never seen before and like my friends and neighbors had never witnessed. I remembered looking at the files of the local newspaper and the flood of 1950 when I was a small child in that community. This, of course, was even worse. This was, without doubt, the 100-year flood.”