[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2731]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


      SCHOOL LUNCHES NOT JUST A LUXURY, SAYS MISSISSIPPI EDUCATOR

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, William Billups, the Principal at the all 
black Jefferson Elementary School in Jefferson County, MS, rural, poor, 
and 85 percent black, says that school lunch programs are not just a 
luxury.
  Principal Billups is a Republican, and he says he likes a lot of the 
changes that are taking place in Washington these days, but ending the 
Federal School Lunch Program and block granting the money to the States 
is not his idea of making things better.
  Billups calls it a crapshoot. Adding that you just do not know what 
they will do with the money.
  Having watched Mississippi State politics like I have watched 
politics in my State of Pennsylvania, Billups knows that ``They'll take 
a little here and take a little there. It'll be political.'' And he 
adds, we shouldn't be political. about food. Maybe we should send our 
Republican friends back to Jefferson Elementary School in Jefferson 
County, MS, to learn that lesson.

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