[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       REPUBLICAN PROGRAMS ARE PUBLIC-SPIRITED, NOT MEAN-SPIRITED

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, the old, tired party-line from the liberal 
Democrats is that Republicans want to take food from the mouths of 
children. Mr. Speaker, it is typical of the liberals. It is pathetic, 
but predictable.
  Mr. Speaker, these liberal Democrats really have no choice but to 
come out here and distort the truth. They know as well as anybody that 
the liberal message and these old, tired attempts at solving the 
problems from the liberal side of the aisle have been rejected.
  The American people have seen the consequences of these policies. 
They know that the only people who have benefited from 40 years of one-
party control by my friends on the other side have been bureaucrats, 
trial lawyers, and Federal regulators.
  For the liberals to come here and suggest that the new majority wants 
to steal food from babies is lower than a gross distortion, it is 
absolutely and patently false. Mr. Speaker, with a generous increase in 
allowances for food lunch programs, Republicans are not taking food 
from kids. We are, however, taking power from the Federal Government 
and returning it to the front lines in this war on these problems.
  If my friends on the other side want to come to this well and distort 
the facts, and tell us something else about the numbers, other than 
what is factual, that is their choice. However, we are not going away. 
This new majority is not mean-spirited, it is public-spirited.


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