Carol, thank you. This will be over in about a month, I hear. Your information helped clear the issue. Nita Carole Cassidy wrote: > 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 > > > >