David Price: “let me first express gratitude to the administration and to the Congress for the actions already taken to relieve the…”

“let me first express gratitude to the administration and to the Congress for the actions already taken to relieve the suffering of the victims of Hurricane Floyd and to help rebuild North Carolina and other affected States. Our people are getting help, and I want to specifically thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Walsh) and the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Mollohan) for their work to replenish FEMA's disaster account in the VA-HUD appropriations bill to make sure emergency aid will not be delayed. I want to thank the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen), the gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), and Secretary Glickman for their work to ensure that our farm families get a fair share of the limited disaster assistance in the agriculture appropriations bill. And we are deeply grateful for the dedication FEMA administrator James Lee Witt has demonstrated in service to our people. The problem is that the Agriculture Department's and FEMA's existing programs are not sufficient to the present need. Not everyone is being helped, and not everyone is getting the level of help that they need. This Congress has no business adjourning without finishing the job of addressing the immediate needs created by this disaster, and I want to do all I can to make sure the Federal Government does its part, as we have with other disasters in the past.”