[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 25304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR DEFENSE AND FOR THE 
              RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, 2004

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                               speech of

                           HON. TRENT FRANKS

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, October 17, 2003

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 3289) making 
     emergency supplemental appropriations for defense and for the 
     reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan for the fiscal year 
     ending September 30, 2004, and for other purposes:

  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Chairman, on October 16, 2003, the Chair 
sustained Mr. Kolbe's point of order against H. Amdt. 408, an amendment 
offered by Mr. Pence, to H.R. 3289. Had there been opportunity to vote, 
I would have voted ``yes'' on H. Amdt. 408 to H.R. 3289, which sought 
to make the first 50 percent of Iraq reconstruction funding available 
immediately as a grant giving priority consideration to the emergency 
purposes of security, electric sector infrastructure, oil 
infrastructure, public works, water resources, transportation, 
telecommunication infrastructures and other emergency needs, and also 
provide that once the Administration informs Congress that a 
democratically elected government in Iraq has been established, the 
balance of funding would be made available in the form of loans from 
the U.S. Government, under terms determined by the President.

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