Harold Rogers: “Now imagine what a one-year old today will experience as he heads into the 21st century.”

Many of the speakers on this amendment this afternoon have no idea of the depth of poverty with which we are trying to deal in most of Appalachia. Mr. Chairman, I submit to the gentleman from Florida that the unemployment rate in Naples or…

I rise to explain the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary portion of H.R. 3194, making consolidated appropriations for fiscal year 2000.

$140,000,000 for the COPS program--$117,500,000 for hiring, $10,000,000 for community prosecutors; and $12,500,000 for management and administration.

H.R. 3421 provides an additional $616,282,000 in funding, after scorekeeping adjustments.