[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 39 (Thursday, March 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today is a day for the State of 
Texas. It is Texas Independence Day. I wanted to ask the House to sing 
just one chorus of ``Texas, Our Texas,'' but I did not get much 
response.
  Unfortunately, I looked at it and looked at the Republican Contract 
on America and realized that they are celebrating giving women, 
children, and senior legal immigrants independence from nutrition 
programs. They are celebrating by putting in jeopardy Social Security.
  Today is also Sam Houston's birthday, the first President of the 
Republic of Texas. But he was not born in Texas. Actually he was born 
in Virginia and was a Federal officeholder in Tennessee and in Texas.
  But under the bill that passed out of the Economic and Educational 
Opportunities Committee last week, he would be ineligible for programs 
under that Republican bill. Because of the Republican bill, the USDA 
estimated that $1.3 billion would be cut over 5 years for the school 
breakfast and lunch programs. The Texas Education Agency estimated the 
welfare bill would cut school lunches in Texas $261 million.

                          ____________________