[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1484]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




MEMBERS SHOULD SUPPORT AMENDMENT TO SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL TO 
         ADDRESS GROUNDFISHING DISASTER FOR WEST COAST FAMILIES

  (Mr. WU asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WU. Mr. Speaker, the House today will take up a supplemental 
appropriations bill which shows tremendous disrespect for hard-working 
rural coastal community families on the West Coast of the United 
States. There is a groundfish disaster occurring on the West Coast 
because a Federal agency has basically shut down groundfishing on the 
West Coast, causing several thousand families hardship.
  There were funds in this bill which have been removed, and despite a 
bipartisan amendment proposed to restore those funds sponsored by the 
gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden) and I, by the gentlewoman from 
California (Mrs. Capps) and the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Kuykendall), this amendment was not made in order.
  I intend to bring this amendment to the floor of the House today. I 
ask the support of my fellow Members to address this groundfish 
disaster that is drastically affecting West Coast hard-working rural 
community fishing families. It is a commonsense bipartisan proposal to 
address a true emergency that is occurring today.

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