Still Trying

<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/04/news/state/60-route.txt" >New route sought for ag disaster aid</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Farm-state members of Congress say they hope an upcoming war spending bill will be an opportunity to secure billions of dollars in agricultural disaster aid.<br />n<br />nThey say it won't be easy.<br />n<br />nSens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., have been leading the effort to pay farmers for losses due to drought, flooding and other disasters. Farmers in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming and several Midwestern states have suffered from weather-related losses, including a drought that hit many areas hard over the past few years.<br />n<br />nMembers of Congress from those states have tried several times to move the aid but have yet to overcome opposition from the White House and conservative Republicans who think it is too expensive.</blockquote><br />n<br />nI see there are members of Congress still trying to get disaster aid to farmers and ranchers for last year drought and other weather related disasters. The tactic now? Attach the spending to a spending bill to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I guess anything is fair in love, war, and disaster aid. It will be interesting to see if this happens now with the Democrats in charge. They promised it would but I will have to see to believe.<br />n<br />n<strong>Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Albert Einstein</strong>