[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 14 (Friday, February 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 11, 1994]
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             EARTHQUAKE RELIEF BILL CONTAINS TOO MUCH PORK

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, I am outraged at the manner in which the 
earthquake victims are being exploited by some in Congress.
  I will vote for this bill because the people of California need it, 
but I stand with the people of this country who are upset with abusing 
their tax dollars in using the earthquake relief bill as a vehicle for 
adding on projects not related to the earthquake and which have not 
cleared the normal budgetary process.
  How can we justify spending $10 million on rebuilding Penn Station, 
unless that place has been relocated from New York City to Los Angeles? 
This is not a train wreck--it is an earthquake.
  Or spending $1.3 million on grants for two sugar cane mills in Hawaii 
to address social and economic needs there. I did not think a volcano 
erupted--I thought it was an earthquake.
  The reason people of this country are upset with Congress is because 
of these antics, and it is time they come to an end.

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