Speech #990158746

Mr. Chairman and my colleagues. to clarify where we are in the procedure. we have pending before us a Dannemeyer substitute. The Dannemeyer substitute would cut deeply into the funds for the Community Health Centers/Migrant Health Centers Program. and it would also block grant those funds. and set out in the distribution to the States a formula that freezes in place the distribution. no matter what circumstances may arise in those States such as. increased unemployment and therefore loss of health insurance. large number of illegal aliens coming into the community and going to the health care services of that community. It would remove the discretion at the Federal level by freezing in place a block grant and those funds for that block grant distributed as they are at the present time. even though circumstances may change. I would urge my colleagues to vote no on the Dannemeyer amendment. Then the issue before us will be the WaxmanTauke amendment which freezes in place at the appropriations level for 1986 the Community Health Centers Program and the Migrant Health Centers Program at that level of appropriation for 1987 and 1988. So the first vote will be on the Dannemeyer amendment. and I would urge the defeat of the Dannemeyer amendment. and then an aye vote for the WaxmanTauke freeze amendment.