It is now over six months since Hurricane Mitch struck Central America. and this Congress has yet to provide any of the reconstruction assistance that is vitally needed to help our neighbors to the South. While the House and Senate have passed bills providing this assistance and everyone involved espouses their good intentions. no funding has been made available. This amendment adds the full $956 million for the Central American disaster as an emergency. The Kosovo bill contains about $600 million to address the humanitarian needs of the Kosovar refugees. and it does so without offsets. This same standard should be applied to emergency funds for Central American. Both of these events are true emergencies and should be funded as such.
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