[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 51 (Monday, December 25, 2000)]
[Page 3112]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on Releasing Funds From the Low Income Home Energy Assistance 
Program

December 18, 2000

    Today I am directing my administration to release $156 million to 
help low-income households throughout the Nation cope with substantial 
increases in home heating fuel costs. The significant and sustained rise 
in energy costs has posed a special burden on low-income families, in 
many cases forcing them to choose between food and other essentials or a 
bare minimum of heat in these winter months. Releasing these heating 
funds today will ease the burden on the Nation's low-income families by 
helping cover their higher home heating costs in the cold weeks and 
months to come.