U.S. Senators Suggest Stockpiling

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Senators Suggest Stockpiling
By Declan McCullagh
March 1, 1999

It sure didn't take Robert Bennett long to go from sneering about Y2K survivalism to recommending it.

Yesterday the chairman of the Senate's special Year 2000 committee and his vice-chairman took to the Sunday talk shows to warn Americans to stockpile food and water.

"This problem is real,'' Bennett, a Utah Republican, said on CBS's Face the Nation. "This will not be the end of the world as we know it. But we have to stay on top of it." He said rural electric companies are in the worst shape.

"It's not unwise for people to do a little stockpiling,'' Christopher Dodd told NBC's Meet the Press. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, is the vice-chair of the Y2K committee.

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-- Bill (billdale@lakesnet.net), March 01, 1999


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