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Article: Clinton pledges relief from heat: Aid goes to farmers, poor scorched by heat in 11 states
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- July 24, 1998
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WASHINGTON - The summer's toll on humans and agriculture prompted
President Clinton to declare a disaster for Texas farmers and order
$100 million to pay electric bills and buy air conditioners and fans.
The president also repeated his support Thursday for several
measures in Congress to help farmers across the country who are
suffering from incomes that are down 35 percent compared to 1996,
partly because of disasters and partly due to lagging foreign trade
coupled with big harvests.
"We simply can't flourish if we let our rural roots shrivel and
decline," the president said from the White House in a session
broadcast to radio stations in farm states.
Clinton, noting that the summer of 1998 ...