[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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                   PORK IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, let us talk a moment about pork. When some 
Members here fight for huge tax breaks for the rich, that is not pork. 
When some Members here fight for supersonic super colliders and 
billions and billions of dollars for big industry, that is not pork. 
When Members here vote for star wars and space stations and level 
funding for the CIA despite the fact that we have seen the end of the 
cold war, that is not pork.
  But when some of us ask, Why is it that we have the highest rate of 
incarceration in the world; why is it that we have the highest rate of 
childhood poverty in the industrialized world; why is it that our kids 
drop out of school; and why is it that we are not feeding hungry kids 
and providing jobs for our kids and educational opportunities for our 
kids? They say that is pork.
  Mr. Speaker, let us get our priorities right. Let us protect the 
people. Let us protect them against crime.

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