[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2817]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SUPPORT FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS

  (Ms. ESHOO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, we have become the most powerful country in 
the world because previous generations invested in us. Now the new 
Republican majority is treating this generation of children 
differently. If we do nothing else in this body, we need to take care 
of our children, those whom we inherit as legislators, the children of 
our Nation. I am a mother and I have spent my adult life raising, 
nurturing, and caring for my children. They are my first priority and 
my reason for living.
  The children of our country deserve the same from us. We must feed 
their bodies to keep them healthy and nourished and feed their minds to 
help them become productive citizens. That is why we provide school 
lunches. That is why we have a public education system, and job 
training programs. That is why mind-enriching noncommercial public 
programming and public television is so important.
  The Republican majority is cutting the funding for the children of 
our Nation, the nutrition for their bodies and the food for their 
minds, and these cuts will starve our Nation's future.
  I urge my colleagues to think about our Nation's children and not rob 
them of their future.


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