[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7222]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ANTHRAX AND ECONOMIC STIMULATION

  (Mr. WHITFIELD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, first of all, I would like to 
congratulate the leadership on the Democratic side and the Republican 
side for dealing with this anthrax issue in the House of 
Representatives and in the Senate. It has called for cooperation on 
both sides to deal with this very complicated issue. And, yes, it is 
affecting our legislative process. It is slowing it down. We are not 
able to move as fast as we want to.
  On the economic stimulus package, it is not everything that any of us 
want. I will say this, though, that this stimulus package provides $9 
billion to States to help them respond to economic hardship in the wake 
of the September 11 attack. It also provides $3 billion in fiscal 2002 
to help States provide health care coverage for unemployed workers who 
today do not have any health care coverage.

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  Obviously there are some aspects of it we do not like, but hopefully 
we can work those out with the Senate in the conference. So I think 
that this economic stimulus package is reasonable and we can work out 
differences with the Senate.

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