02/14/1991
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"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 discretionary spending."
"It would reduce the emergency disaster relief assistance that would otherwise be available to public authorities, and individuals and families for the rebuilding of their lives."
"We need to make this great diversity of art more a part of the lives of all Americans."