but they also need help from the administration to find out where this money is going to come from. or either mark this as an emergency designation so we won t need offsets. these are some things that are very doable, but we need everybody working together. i m going to work strongly with the administration and with leaders of congress until we re able to get this done. give me an idea, john, how desperately needed some of these settlement monies are for black farmers in this country. well, you know, if we don t get this settlement, farmers are going to miss another planting season. right now it s planting time. we thought we would have the funds secured to do this. every day that farmers don t plant, they won t have the maximum harvest. thousands of black farmers have died over the past decade waiting for this restitution to come through. so this has been a very, very long fight. and just last month thousands of black farmers were elated and excited that the government finally set