[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           REPUBLICANS TRUST LOCAL LEADERS TO MAKE DECISIONS

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, Georgia's Governor Zell Miller favors the 
Republican school lunch plan. Nineteen of the Nation's governors want 
the money and the flexibility to feed the children of their State.
  It does not take a straight A student to conclude that if we do not 
feed the Federal bureaucrats we can feed many more children.
  Republican trust local leaders to make better spending decisions than 
the Federal Government. The creativity of the Governors, State 
legislatures and parents will be critical to our block grant programs. 
They will decide where their money is spent. Imagine that. Individuals 
and localities, not the Federal Government, will decide how to spend 
their own money. That is what the November revolution was all about. 
This is the kind of change that we promised and it truly frightens the 
pencil-pushers in Washington. Money is power, and the Republicans aim 
to return that money and power to the States and the people.
  Governor Miller--a Democrat--said it best, ``Give us the money. We 
can use it more effectively and efficiently than any Federal 
bureaucrat.''


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