New Rochelle, which has 72,000 residents, receives $465,000 a year in supplemental aid.

The money is to "provide supplemental financial aid to students and faculty from historically black colleges who are pursuing doctoral degrees."

The Reagan Administration has requested $37 million in supplemental aid for southern African countries.

The minimum wage was passed by the House and the Senate on May 24, 2007 as part of HR 2206, the supplemental aid to the Iraq War.

Representatives from the state's 30 poorest school districts are urging Governor McGreevey to provide $763 million in supplemental aid for programs like after-school reading, summer school and dropout counselors.

New Jersey's low-income school districts are asking the state Supreme Court to settle their fight with Governor McGreevey over a request for more than $700 million in supplemental aid.

Under the plan, some suburban towns could receive extra supplemental aid if their property taxes were rising sharply.

But Mr. Lugar said this emergency bill, providing supplemental aid before the current fiscal year ends on Sept. 30, was not the way to reorder farm policy.

He said the Bush Administration would seek $1 billion over five years in supplemental aid.

Furthermore, the supplemental aid provided by the new act bears no demonstrable relationship to the real needs of the disadvantaged children attending school in the special needs districts.