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




                              SCHOOL LUNCH

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, the war on kids just got extremer and 
meaner yesterday. We all know about the war on the lunch program and 
paper plates are coming in in the mail every day to my office saying 
please save it, please save it. But yesterday we saw one more step that 
I really could not believe.
  We saw them take out of the Child Support Enforcement Act a provision 
saying a deadbeat parent could have their driver's license taken away. 
Now, I think that is amazing.
  As they are taking away a child's lunch, they are not at all hesitant 
to leave a deadbeat parent with their driver's license. Heaven forbid.
  What is a child supposed to do? The child, I guess, is supposed to 
pick better parents before birth. I do not think that is a good answer.


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