[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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       H.R. 3759, EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1994

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                         HON. JERRY F. COSTELLO

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, February 3, 1994

  Mr. COSTELLO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to 
support H.R. 3759, the emergency supplemental appropriations bill for 
fiscal year 1994.
  This legislation, which provides immediate, critical relief to 
victims of last month's California earthquake, also provides much-
needed relief to the victims of last year's flood in the Midwest.
  H.R. 3759 includes funding for two key programs to help my 
constituents: $340.5 million to help repair waterways and watersheds 
damaged by the floods; and $25 million for the Agricultural 
Stabilization and Conservation Service, to help eligible producers 
repair damaged farmland.
  The first set of funding will allow the ASCS to make needed levee 
repairs and will allow for additional enrollments of croplands 
inundated by the 1993 floods in the Wetlands Reserve Program from 
willing landlords.
  Mr. Speaker, these funds will continue the job Congress started 8 
months ago when we passed the last emergency supplemental legislation 
for 1993. My only regret with this bill is that it does not include 
funds needed by my State--$25 million--to complete buyouts for flooded 
communities. I will continue to work with my colleagues to see that 
these buyout funds pursued by the Congress.

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