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Emerson Etheridge: “I am. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do. And it is one of those things where, as I said earlier, it didn't start…”

On the recordOctober 23, 2007
I am. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I do. And it is one of those things where, as I said earlier, it didn't start this year. It really started last year, as you remember. We had a dry winter, then a late frost that hurt the spring crops, and then we had a dry summer that led into the fall, and now they can't plant the fall crops because there is no ground moisture. So there is a level of desperation that I can't remember having seen in my lifetime. Certainly we are hearing from farmers on a daily basis just saying, ``What can we do? What kind of help can we get to get through this?'' because they know they have no ability to make it rain.
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Emerson Etheridge
Ind. Republican-Democrat · Tennessee

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Discussing the impact of drought on farmers during a speech.

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