[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 38 (Wednesday, March 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


           CONTRACT WITH AMERICA CALLED HIT ON SCHOOLCHILDREN

  (Mr. TUCKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TUCKER. Mr. Speaker, in the parlance of lexicography, a contract 
is something that is a promise to be upheld or fulfilled. But in the 
common vernacular, a contract is also something that we understand is a 
hit that is put out on someone.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot about the contract on America and it 
is exactly that. It is a hit on America. But today we understand who 
that hit is really on. When we read an article in the L.A. Times today 
that the Agriculture Department tells us that there is going to be a $1 
billion hit on schoolchildren in terms of the School Lunch Program 
elimination, we understand what the contract on American really is.
  Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, on Capitol Hill there were more people 
walking the halls than you could ever imagine, and that is just the 
beginning.
  Yes, the first day of March is the first day of the beginning of the 
end of the Republican contract on America, because the chickens have 
come home to roost and we finally understand who the hit is on and it 
is on the 13 million American children of this country.

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