[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3094-H3095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. OWENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to make one more plea for reason 
and justice in the fiscal decisionmaking process of the 104th Congress. 
Mr. Speaker, through the rescission process, to immediately cut the 
Summer Youth Employment Program is a reckless and barbaric act. First, 
planned school lunch cuts and now the overnight zero in the budget for 
summer teenage employment. This savage cut again dramatically 
demonstrates the Republican contempt for the work ethic. We say we want 
the poor to work and then we wipe out the Jobs Program for teenagers. 
Instead of saving money by compounding the sense of hopelessness among 
our youth, let's save money by cutting the Sea Wolf submarine; let us 
cut the CIA and the intelligence budget from $28 to $14 billion.
  If we cut farm price supports in half we could save $8 billion. If we 
discontinue the unnecessary manufacture of the F-22 fighter plane we 
could save $17 billion over the next 6 years. Using reason and a sense 
of justice there are effective cuts that can be made to reduce the 
Federal budget. But the hi-tech barbarian approach is a dishonest 
approach, an overwhelming bully power approach. Fiscal decisionmaking 
[[Page H3095]] in the 104th Congress is now so lopsided that it is 
becoming a form of legalized corruption. Let us please stop the madness 
now.

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