[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 36 (Monday, February 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2232-H2233]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AND MEAN SPIRITEDNESS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the President for 
signing the order that will make the Federal Government a model 
employer on child support enforcement. I chaired the hearings last year 
where we had parent after parent come forward and talk about their 
problem of making Federal employees be responsible for paying child 
care. Now the President has done everything within his means and I 
would hope that this body would do everything within their means to 
fill in the things that we have to do by legislation.
  [[Page H2233]] I also would like to speak for a moment about the mean 
spiritedness I am hearing about on the floor today. I think it is 
rather ironic that the same bureaucracy that they do not want to handle 
child lunches is going to be able to continue doing food stamps. I 
mean, that makes no sense to me.
  Why will 50 bureaucracies do a better job of handling children's 
lunches but you do not want to entrust the food stamps to them? I think 
we know. I think it is because we are going to let the bureaucracies 
eat the kids' food.

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