Eva M. Clayton: “I also want to emphasize the fact that this may be an unfunded mandate…”

On the recordJune 4, 1998

I also want to emphasize the fact that this may be an unfunded mandate in its technical sense, but you have a way to close this and you also have a way of correcting the unintended result. Please know when you vote yes for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Solomon), you vote against agricultural research, you vote against crop insurance, and you vote against the opportunity to correct something that we should not have had in the first place. Plus you do good by allowing legal immigrants to have food they so desperately need, particularly children and senior citizens and the disabled.

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Eva M. Clayton

North Carolina

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Addressing the implications of a vote related to agricultural research and support for legal immigrants.

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