Willie Hefner: “Mr. Chairman, this argument, and my good friend from Arizona has some connections in North Carolina, this kind of…”

“Mr. Chairman, this argument, and my good friend from Arizona has some connections in North Carolina, this kind of befuddles me a little bit. We are not pitting poor children in Arizona or in North Carolina, where we have many bases, I have been a strong supporter of impact aid ever since I have been in this place. We talk about the NLRB. I was not happy with the structure of the NLRB, as the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Porter] is not happy with this administration's NLRB appointees, I was not happy with the ones that were in the Ford administration, in the Reagan administration, even the Carter administration, I was not too happy with the board there. But that is not the argument. The NLRB gives people that work for a living, if they have a grievance and have not been treated fairly, they have someplace to go. They mediate this. This has nothing to do with impact aid. I would like to make one other point, if my information is correct, the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Hayworth] and the gentleman from Nebraska [Mr. Christensen] and the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Edwards] testified to the level of funding for impact aid, and it was only $2 million less than the request for impact aid, and they testified and supported that level. That was satisfactory with the impact aid people, NAFIS; that was satisfactory with them. That was the level that they agreed to, and the chairman and the ranking member put it in the bill.”