[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 45 (Friday, March 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2992]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       DO NOT FORGET OUR CHILDREN

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as reported yesterday, it 
appears an overburdened and overworked committee staff person realized 
that the Republicans forgot to add 57,000 children to the Welfare 
Reform School Lunch Program for the children of our military personnel. 
That little mistake could cost an additional $10 million. To paraphrase 
Senator Everett Dirksen, ``A million here, a million there, pretty soon 
you're talking real money.''
  This is often what happens when the Republicans rush like a runaway 
train to reform our welfare system and include programs like school 
nutrition programs, which should be dealt with in the education system 
and not welfare reform.
  This runaway train left 57,000 kids of military personnel at the 
station. But who else is left at the station? I will tell you. Twenty-
eight hundred children in my district alone, and thousands in the State 
of Texas will have no school lunch.
  Again, the Republican shell game of promising an increase but cutting 
appropriations proves that in this shell game our children are going to 
be the losers. Let us not forget our children, whether it is their 
school lunches, whether it is their job training, or whether it is 
their education that they are also cutting next week in the 
rescissions.


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