[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 43 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H1453-H1454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING BILL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentlewoman from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, last week the Committee on Appropriations 
passed the Emergency Supplemental Spending Bill that will provide 
desperately needed aid to defend America's farmers against depression-
level prices, as well as to provide desperately needed assistance to 
the disaster struck nations in Central America.
  This Congress now needs to move quickly to meet our obligations to 
our family farmers and to the devastated nations south of our border. I 
am also pleased to see this spirit of compassion alive in my hometown 
of Toledo, Ohio.
  This past Monday, a delegation of 45 Toledo volunteers, including our 
Mayor Carlton Finkbeiner, traveled to Honduras to help the victims of 
Hurricane Mitch. Volunteers versed in housing

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construction are working with care to build 600 homes in Marcovia. At 
the same time, volunteers with health care training are joining with 
the International Medical Corps and Catholic Relief Services to provide 
victims with basic health care in Catacamas, Choluteca, and Marcovia.
  These goodwill ambassadors from Ohio's Ninth District deserve 
recognition in this well of the House today. I commend them for their 
wonderful efforts to bring aid to a devastated region and assistance to 
our fellow citizens in this hemisphere. I echo their call for action by 
this Congress on the Emergency Supplemental Bill to help the devastated 
people of Honduras and Central America but also our farmers here at 
home.
  Let this Congress be as humanitarian as the people of Toledo, Ohio.

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