[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2729-H2730]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          REPUBLICAN PROPOSAL TO END THE SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

  (Ms. VELAZQUEZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  [[Page H2730]] Ms. VELAZQUEZ. Mr. Speaker, 2 weeks ago the Republican 
Party released its most extreme proposal. Republicans voted to dissolve 
the most successful child nutrition programs in our schools today--the 
school lunch program. With a 5-year, $5 billion program cut, the GOP 
will raise the nutritional deficit of thousands of school age kids.
  Republicans need to understand that in their callous and inhuman 
proposal, they will be hurting the most vulnerable of Americans--our 
Nation's children. Members of the GOP argue that their program will cut 
bureaucrats and will not endanger our children. Well I have news for 
them, cutting school lunches does endanger our children. How can we 
prepare our youth for the jobs of the 21st century when we deny them 
the basic requirements for a healthy body and sound mind.
  Members on the other side of the aisle need to stop playing 
schoolyard bully. Their actions are an insult to millions of Americans 
and their children. I urge this body to defeat any action against the 
health and well-being of our Nation's kids.


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