Nancy Kassebaum: “Just to clarify, displaced homemakers is listed in the bill. It is a category under ``dislocated workers,'' and that is…”

The bill has been modified to ensure that this waiver will be in effect for the length of the community health center grant. Rural providers will not be required to repeatedly make their case to the Secretary over the period of the grant…

I certainly understand and sympathize with the distinguished Senator from Alaska [Mr. Murkowski], who, as chairman of an authorizing committee, has before us an important bill on which time has been spent and many hearings have been held…

I suggest that we have been in the 104th Congress for 2 years. This legislation was introduced in the House some time ago. It would have been useful to us here in the U.S. Senate if this legislation had been before us prior to July 31. We…

Just to respond, we have considered this in the last Congress as well. We have not had a full-blown hearing but it is something Senator Metzenbaum, as part of the Labor Committee in the last Congress, raised. It has been under…