On the recordJune 20, 2000
getting the funding for the Round II Empowerment Zones has been impossible. Last year, the VA-HUD appropriations bill for fiscal year 2000 included $3.6 million for each Round II Empowerment Zone instead of the expected $10 million for the first year. Recently, in the agreement announced by the White House and the Speaker, funding was again promised as a part of the deal, not to mention a third round of Empowerment Zones. I am just asking this committee and this House to keep faith with the promise they have made to the American people for Empowerment Zones, and working very hard toward trying, through this process, to do what is right, to fund these zones. Mr. Chairman, we must finish the work which we have begun and fund these Empowerment Zones. I ask the Members to vote positive for my amendment because it is a people's amendment.
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