Now, that dust storm did not just come across Oklahoma, it came across the entire Plains. It worked its way across North America and it made it all the way to Washington D.C. where ironically, that next week The House Agriculture Committee was in meetings to discuss how to address the conference disasters, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. And it was so bad that it brought it to the attention of my colleagues, our predecessors here in Congress, that not just was the Great Plains suffering, but so was the rest of the country. (02:08–02:19)
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Asserts that the House Agriculture Committee was meeting to address the Dust Bowl during the dust storm.
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