[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS THREATENED

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, on Friday, I visited a School Lunch 
Program in my district and met with school officials and State food 
service directors to talk about the devastating impact that the 
Contract With America will have on child nutrition programs.
  Under the Republican welfare reform plan, Connecticut will lose $49 
million in Federal food aid in 1996 alone. And, the program that will 
take the biggest hit? The School Lunch Program. Each day, 104,000 
children in my State receive reduced or free meals through the School 
Lunch Program. It is a proven nutritional program that helps keep our 
kids healthy and ready to learn.
  Madam Speaker, the Contract With America is a political document. It 
was written to meet the advertising deadline of TV Guide, but it does 
not meet the needs of our children.
  We can reform welfare without hurting our kids, if we work together. 
But, Democrats will not stand idly by while Republicans trample on the 
rights of children in a relentless march to meet Newt Gingrich's 100-
day deadline.

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