[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2262]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              WIC FUNDING

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, I just wanted to contradict what my 
colleague from Ohio on the Republican side just said about the WIC 
Program. The bottom line is that the $76 million in supplemental funds 
are needed for the WIC Program.
  The information submitted by 50 States to the Agricultural Department 
in early April specifically says that they will have to drop, many of 
those States will have to drop women, infants, and children from WIC 
before the end of the fiscal year if no supplemental funding is 
provided. And the documents that these States filed with the 
Agriculture Department in early April basically took into account all 
unspent funds from fiscal year 1996.
  The proposed $76 million supplemental funding requested by the 
administration takes these funds into account. So it is simply not true 
that there is carryover money that is going to be available to make up 
for this difference. When we are giving these estimates and we are 
saying that we need the $76 million extra, it takes into account those 
carryover funds.
  I would point out, Mr. Speaker, that these estimates in these reports 
and the requests for this additional funding in many cases is coming 
from States governed by Republican Governors.

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