I’m focused on doing whatever I can along with Bill and, really, millions of other Americans trying to help. Now there are some steps we should take when we get back to Congress. We passed the emergency supplemental of 10.5 billion, but you know in New York we got a lot of help in making it easier to apply for Medicaid for healthcare; we had an accelerated process. We need to be looking to that. We need to make sure that foodstamps are available once there are places for people to go buy food. We need to really take a hard look at what can we do from the Congressional level to try to ease the suffering of the people along the Gulf.
Q: Mr. President, what’s your role going to be in this? I know President Bush appointed you and his father (inaudible)
President Clinton: Well, the first thing we’re trying to do is to raise money, and to raise money not only for the immediate emergency, but to create a fund that President Bush and I will set up to support the three state fu
