[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2735]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            DEMOCRATS SCARING CHILDREN ABOUT SCHOOL LUNCHES

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, last week the Speaker of the 
House, Newt Gingrich, went out to a school here in Washington, DC, to 
try to support a program called the Earn and Learn Program. That is 
where they pay children $2 for reading a book and it is to encourage 
kids to learn. It is a great program; it is being adopted in many 
schools across this country.
  But before he got there, two Members of the Democrat minority went 
out there and had lunch with the kids and told them that the Speaker 
was coming out and that he was going to take away their lunches, that 
the Speaker of the House was against them, he was going to take away 
the school lunch for all of the kids across the country and scared 
those little kids to death.
  Now, that is wrong; that is wrong. The fact of the matter is we are 
going to increase school lunch funding by 4 percent, we are going to 
increase it. What we are going to cut is the bureaucracy. We are going 
to send it to the States in block grants, so that the Governors who 
understand their States and the mayors who understand their cities can 
distribute this money properly so that it goes to the intended purpose 
without a lot of bureaucratic expense.
  And I really want to say to my colleagues on the Democrat side, if 
you criticize us for the school lunch program, criticize your 
colleagues for going out and scaring those little kids last week. That 
is wrong.

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