[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2816]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 GINGRICH REVOLUTIONARIES SAY TO HUNGRY CHILDREN ``LET THEM EAT BLOCK 
                                GRANTS''

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, a school principal in my district told me 
of children lined up at the door of one of our neighborhood schools on 
a Monday morning, not because they were so anxious to learn, but 
because they were hungry. Their school breakfast was to be their first 
hot meal since school lunch on Friday, 2\1/2\ days without a hot meal.
  Those hungry kids are just going to have to go a little bit longer if 
the Republican cuts in the Nutrition Programs and the School Lunch 
Programs go through. They tell us it is just the administrative costs, 
they just want to eliminate the Federal bureaucrats to the cook in the 
local school, that would be 4 percent of the costs. Their cuts are 
seven times the administrative costs.
  Mr. Speaker, just a little decrease or increase in the price of food? 
More eligible hungry kids? The Republicans have an answer for that: 
Give them smaller portions, that is the Republican plan. Two centuries 
ago Marie Antoinette said ``Let them eat cake.'' Today's Gingrich 
revolutionaries say ``Let them eat block grants.''


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