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


                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. WARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WARD. Mr. Speaker, hearing about salt, I can only think of child 
nutrition. I can only think of our School Lunch Programs. I can only 
think about what we have heard from the people who are supporting and 
who are committed to one thing and one thing only, and, that is, this 
Republican contract.
  They hate it when we stand up here, those of us who are fighting for 
our working families, and remind them that a cut is a cut if it does 
not meet the need. The need is what the goal is here, the need of our 
children to have a hot meal at school because that may be the only 
place they get it.
  If you raise by 4.5 percent the money that is being spent, that is 
still not an increase if the need has gone up by more. If you cap that 
increase at 4.5 percent and the need does in fact go up by more, you 
are taking food from the mouths of our children. That is not what the 
voters have sent us here to do.

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