Thomas Daschle: “I am very saddened by what has happened in the last 48 hours. First, the harsh winter months, cold and snow and ice in…”

“I am very saddened by what has happened in the last 48 hours. First, the harsh winter months, cold and snow and ice in many cases precluded farmers from feeding their livestock, and in many cases caused the death of hundreds of thousands of livestock, only to be followed by floods and other spring disasters that have left many thousands of people homeless in all three States. After visits which the President, the Vice President, the Speaker, the House majority leader and others, there was a national commitment to address this problem and to find ways in which to help these people as quickly as we possibly could.”