[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2397-H2398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


        THE EFFECT OF REPUBLICAN CUTS ON THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman in the well 
[[Page H2398]] just preceding me got it all wrong, because the truth 
is, according to the Los Angeles Times, that California loses a billion 
dollars in school lunch money that would go to directly buy means for 
young children in our schools who need it or they risk being hungry 
every day--a billion dollars.
  The Republicans want to talk about how they are cutting the 
bureaucracy in Washington. The School Lunch Program is run in the 
States. It is run by local people, local school districts, and the 
billion dollars comes out of the lunches of children.
  The article goes on to say that the billion dollars comes out of the 
pocket of working parents who have their children in family day care, 
because those children will now lose the $3 a day so we are talking 
about 30,000 day care centers in California that will lose this money, 
and that means that they will simply have to drop out and parents will 
not be able to afford day care.
  We are talking an additional $60 a month for day care. That is where 
the billion dollars is. That is the loss of California. That is the 
truth outside the beltway.

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