Is it not correct that the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, along with the Majority Leader, Mr. Lott, have made clear their intent to include additional emergency natural disaster aid-- including the aforementioned $81 million for farmers--in the Military Construction Conference Report?
Questioning the inclusion of disaster aid in a military construction funding report.
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