Sue Myrick: “every year when we do these emergency supplemental bills I have the same concerns. They are grave concerns, because we…”

“every year when we do these emergency supplemental bills I have the same concerns. They are grave concerns, because we really do not deal with true emergencies. Emergencies happen all over the country, they do not just happen in North Carolina. Right now we are referring to one that is in North Carolina, Hurricane Floyd, which tremendously devastated our State. There are still thousands and thousands of people who are not in their homes or do not have homes because of this hurricane. It is really disturbing to me, because when we do emergency supplemental bills, we end up with a lot put in there that is not emergency. This bill is no different. Disasters happen all over the country. There was a tornado yesterday in downtown Fort Worth. It is another example of it does not matter what State one is from, one is probably going to face the same situation. It is time we set up some type of emergency rainy day fund or insurance fund, or something that is going to get us out of this box of continually coming to the floor with emergency spending bills, with three-fourths of the spending in the bill not being emergency. I am very disturbed by this one, as well. I will end up voting for the bill because I do not have any choice. I cannot vote against the money for the people who do not even have a home to live in. That is not a choice in my situation. But I am very disturbed by the fact that there are a lot of other things in here that are not emergencies.”