[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2734]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPPORT FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, I have a prepared text for today to talk about 
child nutrition programs, but I have to react to what we have just been 
hearing. To say that they are not going to cut these child nutrition 
programs is the big lie, ladies and gentlemen, because if you make a 
block grant, you take last year's figure which may be higher than the 
year before's but say, ``We are not going to raise it in the future, we 
are just going to let the States spend it,'' you are cutting it.
  If you do not take into account economic downturns, if you do not 
take into account what happens in community after community across this 
country which may be different than what is happening here, and then 
have the audacity to blame the Democrat support on our connections with 
Federal bureaucrats, that is just too absurd for words.
  Ladies and gentlemen, we need to continue to support our children.

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