[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            MALICE: SAYING NO TO A DECENT LUNCH FOR CHILDREN

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, my colleagues talk about a ``second 
Reagan Revolution.''
  Well, they are right--when it comes to providing decent food and 
nutrition to the children of America.
  In the mid-1980's, millions of children suffered because the Federal 
Government cut funding for the school lunch program.
  Now, today, to pay for more defense spending and tax giveaways to the 
rich contributors to the Republican Party, we are going to let kids go 
hungry again.
  Maybe what we need is a revolution that reaches back a little farther 
in Republican Party history.
  In 1865, facing an enemy far more dangerous than our Nation's school 
children, our greatest President--a Republican President--stated that 
we would heal our Nation's wounds ``with malice toward none, with 
charity for all.''
  I say to my colleagues in the majority--saying no to a decent lunch 
for our Nation's children is malice, pure and simple.
  With malice toward none, with charity for all.
  How empty and distant those words seem to the party of Abraham 
Lincoln today.


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