[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 35 (Friday, February 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2180]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     REAL DOUBTS ABOUT THE CONTRACT

  (Mr. SCHUMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. Speaker, we have all seen the pictures of the happy 
faces, kids getting their only good meal of the day. It might be in an 
inner city in Harlem, it might be in rural Appalachia, it might be in 
the suburbs of a town that experiences high unemployment.
  But those pictures will be no more.
  Who would have ever believed that the Contract for America meant 
eliminating the School Lunch Program? The balanced budget amendment 
sounds good, but when Americans learn it means eliminating school 
lunches, making student loans very expensive, crippling Medicare, they 
are going to scratch their heads in wonder.
  The priorities of the Gingrichite contract are out of whack. We cut 
school lunches, but increase spending for some new-fangled plane, the 
F-22, made in Georgia.
  The American people are beginning to learn that this contract is not 
about cutting out waste. It is about cutting the very programs that 
made America move forward from the New Deal to this day, and when they 
learn about it, they are going to have real doubts about the 
Gingrichite contract.

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