[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 65 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5557]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL

 Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, last night, I voted for final 
passage of the supplemental appropriations bill.
  The bill, as amended by the compromise substitute, is a distinct 
improvement over the legislation reported by the Appropriations 
Committee. The compromise reduces Federal spending by nearly $16 
billion and restores funding to a number of critical programs affecting 
children and education.
  This includes a broad range of programs that I very strongly support: 
Head Start, education reform, safe and drug free school programs, the 
Women Infants and Children Program, the childcare block grant program, 
title I programs to improve reading, writing, and math skills for 
educationally disadvantaged kids, impact aid, and the TRIO Program for 
first generation college-bound students, and the national service 
college scholarship program--AmeriCorps.
  However, the legislation still cuts too deeply into important 
programs which the American people approve of such as assisting the 
States in protecting the quality and safety of our drinking water, the 
opening of Jobs Corps centers already announced, and for which 
communities across the country have expended funds and resources and 
funding for the promised environmental cleanup of military bases.
  One of the great disappointments on this bill was the defeat of the 
Mikulski amendment by a vote of 68 to 32.
  The Mikulski amendment would have restored funds for a number of 
important national programs such as the housing program, and also would 
have funded the EPA Center in Bay City, the CIESIN facility in Saginaw, 
and announced Job Corps centers in nine cities across the country, 
including Flint.
  I have already begun discussions with colleagues in an effort to 
restore some of these cuts in conference between the House and the 
Senate.


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