President. I regret that I have to come to the floor to cast my vote against the emergency supplemental appropriations bill before the Senate today. When we face crises in this country. when you have American men and women serving courageously in Kosovo. when you have the borders in Macedonia and Montenegro overflowing with refugees. and when you have hundreds of thousands of hurricane victims in Central America. you would expect that the U.S. Senate would be capable of coming togetherunanimouslyto address these challenges. It used to be that way in the Senate. Its not that way anymore. Now we fund our operations in Kosovo. and we help the refugees. and we aid the hurricane victims. but at the same time we practice legislative extortionwe say to every Senator. "You want to vote for Kosovo? You want to vote for aid for hurricane victims? Go aheadbut you have to vote to cut vital housing programs for working Americans across this country.
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