[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 72 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 72

     Expressing the sense of Congress that stimulus package funds 
appropriated to accelerate the economy should be equitably targeted to 
economically distressed areas that have not benefited from the current 
                           economic recovery.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 25, 1993

 Mrs. Clayton submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
           referred to the Committee on Government Operations

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
     Expressing the sense of Congress that stimulus package funds 
appropriated to accelerate the economy should be equitably targeted to 
economically distressed areas that have not benefited from the current 
                           economic recovery.

Whereas the economic recovery of recent months has bypassed certain economically 
        distressed rural and urban areas;
Whereas the unemployment rate in certain rural and urban areas continues to be 
        unacceptably high;
Whereas rural areas may disproportionately suffer due to a reduction in 
        appropriated funds in the regular budget process; and
Whereas certain distressed areas cannot rely on the private economy to stimulate 
        their local economies: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Federal, State, and local entities should target money 
appropriated for the purpose of stimulating the economy to distressed 
rural and urban areas on an equitable basis, using the following 
criteria:
            (1) The percentage of the population residing in 
        metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.
            (2) The comparative degree of economic need as measured--
                    (A)(i) in the case of a distressed community 
                located in a metropolitan area, by the extent its 
                annual unemployment rate for 1992 and its most current 
                poverty rate exceed the national average for all 
                metropolitan areas; or
                    (ii) in the case of a distressed community located 
                outside of a metropolitan area (including rural areas) 
                by the extent its annual unemployment rate for 1992 and 
                its most current poverty rate exceed the national 
                average for all communities located outside of 
                metropolitan areas; and
                    (B) the extent to which a community may be 
                adversely affected by the actual or anticipated closing 
                or significant downsizing of a military facility or 
                defense industry in which a significant percentage of 
                the work force of the facility or industry are 
                residents of the community.

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