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Sean Reyes: “Mr. Speaker, I also want to tell my colleagues, I had intended to offer an amendment that would have added $5 million to…”

On the recordJune 29, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I also want to tell my colleagues, I had intended to offer an amendment that would have added $5 million to the Food and Nutrition Service for a program that would target outreach to expand the feeding programs in the colonia areas of the Southwest. I will not offer the amendment, but I would like to request a commitment from the chairman that, as the agriculture bill moves to conference committee, that he will do what he can to secure the funds for this much-needed targeted assistance in the colonias.
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Sean Reyes
Utah
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Requesting funding for feeding programs in colonia areas during a discussion on the agriculture bill.

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