George Bush actually said...

Meeting these emergency needs should not be postponed to provide Federal funding for the reforestation of private timber lands.

The diversion of these funds to a non-mandatory purpose, as envisioned in H.R. 3482, would result in the funds being treated as discretionar...

Inevitably, funding for such reforestation would lead to additional demands from other parties for assistance, resulting in a further divers...

It would reduce the emergency disaster relief assistance that would otherwise be available to public authorities, and individuals and famili...