[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3280]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




GOP LEADERSHIP MUST NOT DELAY ONE MINUTE LONGER IN PASSING SUPPLEMENTAL 
                     EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS BILL

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, it was January when the Governors of three 
Midwestern States, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, declared 
natural disasters in their States because of heavy snow. Residents of 
these States first faced the deadly dangers of terrible snowstorms and 
then tragically lost their homes and possessions to the ensuing floods.
  It has been months of pain and suffering for these people in these 
States and their leadership, who have turned to the Federal Government 
for the assistance promised in our programs of emergency relief. There 
remain more than 5,000 citizens who are homeless, without relief, who 
need financial assistance now.
  Why does the GOP leadership continue to play games with the 
supplemental emergency appropriations bill for even one minute? 
Apparently, the Republican leadership does not care about these folks. 
Democrats do care. We support a clean emergency appropriations bill.
  To my Republican friends I say let us pass a supplemental emergency 
appropriations bill without the controversial nonemergency provisions. 
Let us pass a clean emergency appropriations bill today.

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