[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 34 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2071]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             NEW WELFARE PROPOSALS LACKING IN FAMILY VALUES

  (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, we have heard a lot about family values 
lately, but what kind of family values are contained in the Contract 
With America, which proposes massive tax breaks for the wealthiest 
people in this country, billions of dollar increases on military 
spending, including the discredited Star Wars Program, and at the same 
time cutbacks on programs desperately needed by the weakest and most 
vulnerable people in our society?
  I was especially outraged yesterday by a subcommittee's elimination 
of the LIHEAP Program, which provides low-income people, including many 
senior citizens, heating subsidies in the wintertime. In my State of 
Vermont, over 20,000 households, including many senior citizens, take 
advantage of that desperately needed program.
  Tax breaks for the rich, increases in military spending, and cutbacks 
on heating programs for the elderly and the poor. What family values.

                          ____________________