The conference report authorizes $100 million in emergency grants to help keep trauma centers open. Those grant dollars are badly neededtrauma centers around the Nation are struggling with an increasing caseload of victims of violence and the growing fiscal worry of uncompensated care. Trauma centers along the United StatesMexico border are burdened with the additional responsibility of providing emergency care to undocumented persons. and we were able to address that problem in the report as well. However. I am outraged by the fact that the authors of the conference report have seen fit to radically alter the block grant formula for funding of alcohol. drug abuse. and mental health services in a way that significantly jeopardizes those programs in Texas.
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