Nita: Thanks for your calm response to this issue. I also heard on NPR that the funding is from a program on Energy--already allocated in a previous budget. In short, the $100 million for fans and air conditioners in the Southwest has nothing whatever to do with Udall funding. Carole Cassidy At 02:46 PM 7/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >I know it is diffucult to accept, but in Houston and Dallas (that I know >of) we are distributing fan and in somecases airconditions -electric >bills to the poor are being deferred. This is serious business. I want >the Udall bill funded as much as anyone, but in addition to the deaths >amoung the elderly and very younge. Illegal alians are dying at such a >rate that the mexican government is issueing warnings. It is serious, I >know, but these are people also. Nita > >