[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 TAKE MONEY FROM CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS AND GIVE IT TO 
                              THE FAT CATS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, the mean-spirited Republicans continue 
right on. They are trying to become information-proof, as this goes 
along. All sorts of newspapers, all sorts of people involved in the 
program, people administering the program, everybody, not just 
Democrats, are saying they are making very serious cuts in the School 
Lunch Program in their new war on kids.
  Why are they cutting these children? They are cutting these children 
because they need money to pay the fat cats. They are not sending it to 
the front lines, they want to return money to the fact cats. Let us be 
perfectly honest. That is not in America's tradition. Cutting kids, the 
poorest in the Nation, to pay the wealthiest in the Nation is 
absolutely wrong.
  If people disagree with me, and they write here and disagree with me, 
I ask them to please send their picture. I want to see what those kinds 
of Americans look like that say they thing this is right.
  I think it is time we started looking at the facts, stop trying to be 
information-proof, and protecting a policy that they are just upset we 
found out about and are exposing.

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