[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19238]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             OHIO FLOODING

  Mr. DeWINE. Mr. President, I want to also add that while there is a 
great deal of misery and suffering going on in Haiti right now because 
of the flooding, my home State of Ohio is also hurting. Several large 
regions of our State--the southern part, the eastern part--have also 
been very hard hit.
  At least seven people we know of have died as a result of flooding 
since August. The hurricane has hit Ohio and has caused quite a toll. I 
will be traveling in some of that region in Ohio tomorrow to take a 
look myself. My representative Karen Sloan has been on the scene. She 
represents me out of my Marietta office, but she has been traveling 
throughout that region for a number of days and has been reporting back 
to me daily.
  The people on the ground have been doing a great job, a courageous 
job. I congratulate them. It is going to take a lot of time to get 
things back up and running in a number of communities that have been 
hardest hit. I commend Governor Taft. I commend the Ohio Emergency 
Management Agency. I commend the men and women of the Ohio National 
Guard. I also commend the local officials who have worked so 
tirelessly, but also the countless volunteers and organizations who 
have worked to try to help the people who have been put out of their 
homes, people who have lost property, and people who have lost their 
loved ones. I congratulate them and thank them for the great work they 
have done. A lot of work still remains to be done in Ohio, as I know 
there does in many other States as well.

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