Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twelve Midwestern senators are pleading with leading members of the Senate Appropriations Committee to join them in fighting for money to deal with the disastrous flooding in their home states.
Illinois Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama are among those who wrote to Senators Robert Byrd and Thad Cochran. Their letter says the states are "in a race against time and nature."
Durbin and the others say the senators need to act quickly to get funding. They say it will be needed to provide the help necessary so people can put their lives back together and revive the impacted economies.
The letter was signed by the senators from six states: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois.