Political Quotes

“at the present time, we are in the third year of a drought. We normally do not have it every year, although we may have a county or two that would have it--not the same county even-- but it is usually on a county-by-county basis. One county may have a drought this year; another county might have a drought next year. But at the moment, our entire State is having a drought, as is Montana. They have already gotten their designation. We have not gotten our full State designation yet, and it probably would not even be necessary because of some of the surrounding county designations that we pick up that same way. But ever since I got to the Senate, I have been concerned that we have come in with emergency proposals for things that happen on a very regular basis and what we know will happen. We do not know where it will happen, but we know it will happen. Wherever it happens in the United States, we ought to take it into consideration, plan for it, budget for it, and prepare for it before it happens so we can do what we said we would do.”