Bill Clinton: “as you can tell from both Senator Schumer and myself, we are very grateful for this understanding and pending action…”

“as you can tell from both Senator Schumer and myself, we are very grateful for this understanding and pending action that will give us a chance to right this wrong. Again I think it is difficult to trace how it happened. I believe it is in the rush of trying to figure out how to maybe make things balance a little bit more that this was seized upon. I ask unanimous consent that letters from Governor Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Executive Chamber, State Capitol, Albany, NY, October 21, 2005. Hon. Thad Cochran, Chair, Appropriations Committee, Senate Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC. Hon. Robert C. Byrd, Ranking Member, Appropriations Committee, Senate Hart Office Building, Washington, DC. Dear Senators Cochran and Byrd: I would like to voice my strong concerns over a provision in the House Labor-HHS Appropriations bill which would rescind $125 million from the New York State Workers' Compensation Board sent to New York as part of the response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. As the Senate considers its own Labor-HHS appropriations bill, I would ask that this rescission not be included. If it is not feasible to reverse the rescission, then I would respectfully ask that you support passage of a new emergency appropriation. Under P.L. 107-117, Congress provided New York a total of $175 million for the Workers' Compensation Board.…”