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Marcy Kaptur: “Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, if I could, in my State, we have an extraordinary, we have already exhausted this year's…”

On the recordJanuary 7, 2003
Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, if I could, in my State, we have an extraordinary, we have already exhausted this year's allocation of low-income energy assistance in our State; and we are, what, 3 months into the year, the beginning of the heating season; and there are tens of thousands of people on the waiting list in my State, and I am sure in other States across America. And to say, well, we just cannot afford those things, but we can afford for the people who live up on the top of the hill in the big houses with all of the lights on and the windows open, we are going to give them a little extra gift so that they can go to Antigua to avoid the colder months.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Discussing the exhaustion of low-income energy assistance and the disparity in resource allocation.

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