Frank Murkowski said "I have a sense-of-the-Senate amendment which I think addresses something that has been given a lot of thought in this body; my amendment would replace the Presidential election campaign checkoff with a checkoff for Federal disaster relief. The California earthquake brought about the reality that these natural disasters occur. They are unfunded, and they must be funded. We really need to reevaluate our spending priorities because we spend millions and millions of dollars with the recognition that we do have this reoccurrence; yet, at the same time, we are in a situation where we do not have the funding and we have to consider it under the merits of an urgent supplemental. This amendment would allow the American public to choose whether to spend their dollars on the victims of a disaster rather than a political process funding political conventions." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 9, 1994

I have a sense-of-the-Senate amendment which I think addresses something that has been given a lot of thought in this body; my amendment would replace the Presidential election campaign checkoff with a checkoff for Federal disaster relief. The California earthquake brought about the reality that these natural disasters occur. They are unfunded, and they must be funded. We really need to reevaluate our spending priorities because we spend millions and millions of dollars with the recognition that we do have this reoccurrence; yet, at the same time, we are in a situation where we do not have the funding and we have to consider it under the merits of an urgent supplemental. This amendment would allow the American public to choose whether to spend their dollars on the victims of a disaster rather than a political process funding political conventions.

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Frank Murkowski

Alaska

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Editor's note · Context

Murkowski discusses an amendment to redirect funds from presidential campaign checkoffs to federal disaster relief.

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