[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   SUPPORT FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, we are pedaling backward fast, crushing kids 
as we go. Cut the heat at home, cut the lunches at school. There is no 
escaping the cuts, kids.
  Have we forgotten the shameful revelations of hunger and poverty that 
produced the American majority for school lunches, WIC and low income 
energy assistance? What about that contract?
  Contracts are supposed to be win-win propositions. Tax cuts for the 
wealthy paid for with lunch money from kids is a rotten tradeoff. As $5 
billion wallop at WIC and child nutrition programs is child abuse.
  If Washington cannot afford to feed hungry kids, cash-starved cities 
like the District will hardly be able to pick up the pieces--or the 
children. It is time we stopped eating our young and their lunches.


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