Byron Dorgan: “I came to the floor, however, just to visit a few moments about the disaster relief bill, the supplemental…”

“I came to the floor, however, just to visit a few moments about the disaster relief bill, the supplemental appropriations bill that we will be dealing with this week in Congress. As my colleagues know, the Congress left for a Memorial Day recess, which was all of last week, without having passed the supplemental appropriations bill or the disaster bill, as we refer to it, because the legislation contains a substantial amount of money to respond to the disasters that occurred in our part of the country; namely, the blizzards and the flooding and the fires that occurred in North and South Dakota and Minnesota.”