Political Quotes

“last night, after we had our last recorded vote, there were two amendments which we discussed and recommended to the Senate that we accept and they were accepted, one of which was offered by the Senators from Florida. Senator Graham offered an amendment, it was cosponsored by Senator Mack, and it dealt with disaster problems that exist in Florida because of the recent wildfires that we are all familiar with because we saw these vividly photographed on television. For days and days, fires raged throughout the State of Florida. As a result of that, the Senators are asking that emergency funds be made available to compensate victims of that disaster who were involved in agriculture. I invite the attention of the Senators to the record of the discussion of that issue last night. The proposal was to make available funds from the account that has been described by the Senators from North Dakota. There is no indication right now, from the Department of Agriculture, whether or not the disaster fund that is discretionary with the Secretary has been depleted to the extent that replenishment is necessary in order to compensate the victims in Florida.”