Harold Volkmer: “I, too, wish to commend the gentleman from Nebraska for this amendment. As one who has suffered from the floods in the…”

“I, too, wish to commend the gentleman from Nebraska for this amendment. As one who has suffered from the floods in the Missouri River Basin in the year of 1993 and again this spring, I realize that the master plan as originally drafted and if implemented by the corps would have meant the types of floods that we had in 1993 and again this spring in 1995 would have been almost an annual thing in the spring, with the spring rains and all the thaws up north and the release of the waters from the reservoirs in the north. It would have meant that we would have had an annual flood. And it does not make sense in order to do so. It also would have meant that in the time frame of August through December, we would have such a low flow in the Missouri River that we would not have any ability to have barge transportation to move our agriculture products. It just did not make sense. I want to commend the gentleman from Nebraska. We have been working together, those of us from the States of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, and others, in order to make sure that this does not happen. The gentleman has a very good amendment. I urge the House to adopt the amendment.”