[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2490]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CHILDREN SUFFER HUNGER UNDER FAILED WELFARE SYSTEM

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased that there was an accommodation 
made on 1-minutes, and I hope that the gentleman from Missouri will 
abide by his word and not interrupt the good business of the House 
during the day.
  Mr. Speaker, do you remember the incident in Chicago last year when 
authorities found 19 children living in squalor in a single apartment 
on the west side. Some of the children were eating food from the same 
bowl used by the family dog.
  Kim King of the Cook County Public Guardian's Office had this to say 
in the aftermath of the incident:

       The welfare system is a humongous failure. There's no 
     question about that. The welfare system condones having 
     children and not being responsible for those children.

  This, Mr. Speaker, is what liberalism's failed welfare system has 
wrought.
  To those liberals who come down here to defend this system, I say you 
have a lot of explaining to do. And when they talk about taking the 
food out of babies' mouths, I have news for my liberal colleagues--it 
is already happening on a far grander scale than imaginable.
  Yet you all have the nerve to take the well to call for more of the 
same.

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