[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     SAVE THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

  (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, obviously I am not going to 
talk about the Brady bill, being from Texas.
  But let me talk about school lunch programs and the importance of 
making sure that we save that program.
  In the Houston Independent School District next year we would lose a 
half-million dollars for the school lunch and breakfast program. In the 
State of Texas, we would lose $261 million in a 4-percent cut. The 
first round of cuts included the school breakfast and lunch programs. 
The second round of cuts last week from the Committee on Appropriations 
included funding for safe and drug-free schools.
  I think this is a war on schools and a war on education and a war on 
children, and I would hope that we would then look at this Contract 
With America and see whether providing increased funding, including $11 
million for two new airplanes the Army did not request, $20 million for 
a new runway for a base that is on the Base Closure Commission, $1 
million for a bike trail in North Miami Beach, I think we see the 
priorities have changed.
  We are taking money away from breakfast and lunch programs and 
providing it in this new Contract on America.

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