[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1978]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                              THIS IS WAR

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, we are not dealing with the celebration 
of a contract. We are simply looking at a war where people are pitting 
one group of citizens against another. It is simple and clear to the 
children and women and those who are in need, working families, that we 
are in war with today.
  I would like to celebrate what the 103d Democratic Congress did that 
really focused on working families: family leave, motor-voter law, 
reducing the deficit, responding to families and small businesses and, 
yes, providing opportunities for our youth to get educational loans.
  What we are doing right now is fighting in a war that seems to be 
dependent upon a contract and now we are celebrating 50 days of this.
  But I tell Members what we are going to do in the next 50 days. We 
are going to stand against abandoning education and training. We are 
going to stand against not creating jobs. We are going to stand against 
gutting the School Lunch Program where children come to school to learn 
and then they cannot eat and, yes, we are going to continue to fight 
against gutting the crime bill, taking police off the streets. And we 
are finally going to stand against welfare punishment, because we 
believe in welfare reform.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a war, and we are going to win this war for 
working Americans.

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