[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT

  Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I have come to the floor to speak as a 
member of the Judiciary Committee, but I will back up the Senator from 
Arkansas on one very key point that I hope can happen in this Congress. 
I urge, as she has done, that a bill to reauthorize the Older Americans 
Act come to the floor of the Senate because it has been so long since 
that law has been reauthorized on a permanent basis. I understand it 
has been reauthorized on a year-to-year basis, but not on a permanent 
basis as it ought to be, or at least for a multiyear basis. So I urge 
that action to be taken at this particular time.

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