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Harold Volkmer: I feel that they are entitled to assistance just as much as others in the past have received, whether they have been…

On the recordFebruary 3, 1994
I feel that they are entitled to assistance just as much as others in the past have received, whether they have been tornado victims, hurricane victims, flood victims, or earthquake victims, and I think they are entitled to it, and they are entitled to it now, not next week, next year or any other time. As a result of that, Madam Chairman, I strongly support the legislation, and also I want to commend and thank the chairman of the committee and the members of the committee for also including funds, additional funds, for our assistance in the Midwest, for our flood victims, especially for our farmers in the bottom lands, and I would like to say, Madam Chairman, that I think that this House should reject, strongly reject, the Penny-Kasich amendment and go on and get the disaster assistance to the people of California, not clutter it all up.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri

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The speaker addresses disaster assistance for flood victims in California and the Midwest.

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