[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 35 (Friday, February 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2214]
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                           GOVERNMENT BY CUTS

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to 
address the house this afternoon. I was so ecstatic this morning when I 
came in because I am only a second-term Member but I found out I had 
arrived. I found out that last night I was called by name on Rush 
Limbaugh, but the only thing he missed, he did not say I was Gene 
Green, he called me Mr. Green Jeans, and I am glad for that recognition 
even though he did transpose the names.
  The reason he talked about it though was because I talked about how 
the breakfast and lunch program will cut children in Texas by 4 
percent, and yesterday the House majority Republicans on the Economic 
and Educational Opportunity Committee voted to deny thousands of school 
children in the State of Texas their breakfast and their lunches.
  Last year during the fall when people asked me what I thought a 
Republican majority would be in Congress I jokingly described it as 
nuclear winter. Well, if it is, then we are subjecting ourselves to the 
fallout now.
  The Committee on Appropriations yesterday cut $17 billion out of many 
programs.
  Safe and Drug free schools cut by $481 million.
  School-to-Work cut by $24 million.
  Displaced Workers was cut by $99 million.
  In nondefense rescission bill this week job training was cut by $200 
million.
  Veterans Administration will be cut by $206 million.
  NASA reduced by $66 million.
  Federal Highway Administration cut by $421 million.

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