This is an emergency appropriation. and it must be treated as such. We should not be engaging in a misguided effort by adding on other nonemergency measures that should more properly be considered within the context of the annual appropriations process. In this substitute. we would provide the Presidents request and support our family members who are in harms way in Kosovo. provide humanitarian assistance to the refugees from terrible atrocities in their homeland. and provide the important and deserved pay raises to our armed forces that we tried but couldnt get included last year. Mr. Chairman. three months ago we passed a badly needed supplemental bill to provide emergency funding to our friends in Central America who suffered a terrible natural disaster. and for our own farmers.
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