Harry Flood Byrd

How did my friend from Colorado, Mr. Brown, vote on the reconciliation bill which reduced the budget over a period of 5 years, by somewhere between $450 billion to $500 billion. How did my friend vote on that? There was his chance to cut.

Of course. My people in West Virginia are asking the same questions the people from Virginia are asking the Senator from Virginia.

May I say to my friend from Virginia, Mr. Warner--and he is my friend and he is a very distinguished Senator--I should think that this would be one of the things that the task force would want to consider, and its recommendations would…

H.R. 3759 contains four titles. For title I, the committee recommends emergency disaster assistance and other emergency funding totaling just over $10 billion. The vast majority of these funds are to provide disaster assistance to the…

As the Senator may know, the Appropriation for Unanticipated Needs is available for the Los Angeles Earthquake and ``other disasters.'' Given the conditions you have outlined, which do sound quite severe, it would appear that Federal…

Before responding to the Senator's question it would be useful to understand the statutory basis for providing such assistance.