[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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            IMMEDIATE DISASTER RELIEF FOR AMERICA'S FARMERS

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, I again come to the well of this great 
Chamber to implore my colleagues to extend immediate and desperately 
needed disaster relief to tens of thousands of American farmers and 
ranchers now suffering from years of drought.
  If Congress is to keep alive the American family farmer, we must act 
this year to provide immediate and necessary disaster assistance. Help 
is necessary for more than a dozen States crippled by the devastating 
one-two punch of adverse weather conditions and depressed commodity 
prices.
  I ask my colleagues from ag-producing States and from ag-consuming 
States to join our fight to secure disaster assistance this year for 
our farm families before it is too late.

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