The State of Washington would not carry the burden of a natural disaster aloneand it should notand no one is proposing that we not provide assistance for the cleanup. But. the burden of Mount St. Helens must not be shifted from the State of Washington to the Nations poor and elderly. as this proposal would have us do. Nor can I justify eliminating essential services to increase allocations for refugees or foreign aid. This. to me. is no more than robbing Peter to pay Paul. Let me remind my colleagues that State aid to local governments in this country far exceeds all Federal aid to State and local government combined.
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