[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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