Kent Conrad: “I think that is a reasonable way for it to work because obviously we do not want to be expending Federal dollars where…”

“I think that is a reasonable way for it to work because obviously we do not want to be expending Federal dollars where private insurance covers the loss or where other Federal programs cover the loss. The concern that the Air Force has had is they face circumstances here in both North Dakota and Minnesota, by the way, where Air Force base personnel were forced to live off base because of a housing shortage on the base. And those personnel were subjected to this devastating series of circumstances, some of them in North Dakota, some of them in Minnesota. And the Air Force would very much like to be able to compensate them for personal property losses over and above what the insurance will cover, over and above what other Federal programs will cover.”