[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 36 (Monday, February 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2231]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

  (Mr. UNDERWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, every day on Guam 18,000 hot lunches and 
6,000 breakfasts are served to schoolchildren.
  As a former classroom teacher, I know the value of a nutritious meal 
to the learning process. And I can spot when someone has not done their 
homework and is faking it.
  The other side would argue that they cut this program, but it is 
included in the new block grants better entitled block head grants. 
This rationale is baloney. The new block grants are by every admission, 
a way that will eventually cut programs and reduce funding. The savings 
are supposed to be in less bureaucracy. But school lunches are not made 
by bureaucrats. These programs work quite well because they are 
administered by the elementary school principals for the benefit of our 
children whom we place in their trust.
  We need to send some Members of Congress back to first grade to 
relearn their ABC's--
  A. Elementary schools are not bureaucracies.
  B. Schoolchildren are not freeloaders; and,
  C. Hot lunches are not pork.

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