Cotton Newsline: February 28, 2007

Congressional leaders have advised the administration that they intend to add a disaster assistance package to the emergency supplemental appropriations measure providing funds for the war.

Congressional leaders have advised the administration that they intend to add a disaster assistance package to the emergency supplemental appropriations measure providing funds for the war. According to Robbie Minnich, Senior Government Relations Representative for the National Cotton Council, Congress will consider the bill in March.

Recently Senators Feinstein and Boxer from California introduced a one-point-five billion dollar disaster assistance package. Minnich says all disaster assistance will probably be rolled into one bill.

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