Youth and Families. I strongly support the infant mortality initiative contained within the legislation before us today. The appropriations bill allocates $25 million in new money and it is anticipated that Federal funding for community and migrant health centers will remain untouched in 1991 and that funds from those programs will not be jeopardized. The proposal also recognizes that infant mortality is just as serious in rural areas as it is in urban areas. Last year. members of the Infant Mortality Task Force met with Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan to discuss the problems in the southem region where infant mortality statistics are higher than any other region of the country.