[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 41 (Monday, March 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     SCHOOL SAFETY AND SCHOOL LUNCH

  (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I was delighted to hear the last person in 
the well to addres the subject of children. I would like to again 
address that today.
  Last week, my colleagues, we discussed the question of cuts in the 
School Lunch Program. Today we find that my Republican colleagues 
propose to zero out the Drug-Free Schools Program and also the Safe 
Schools Program. This tends to show me that my Republican colleagues 
know the cost of everything and the value of nothing, because the 
greatest trust and the greatest treasure that this Nation has is our 
young people.
  To have them in schools which are free of drugs, which are safe, and 
to see to it that those who have no recourse to adequate nutrition and 
food supplies at home, to see that they have an adequate school lunch 
is indeed one of the ways that we not only nurture our greatest 
treasure, but we look to the future of this country.


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