[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      CUTTING CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS

  (Mr. POMEROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Speaker, activities occurring in the 104th Congress 
this week make very clear the warped priorities and bad economics of 
the Republican's contract on America. The warped priorities are evident 
in the programs subject to deep and painful spending cuts: school 
lunches, day-care nutrition, drug-free schools, and several other 
programs representing an important investment in our next generation. 
In short, help for our kids that our kids need.
  And for what are these cuts being made? Being made to finance a tax 
package to be voted on in the Committee on Ways and Means, a package 
that represents the more you make, the more you are going to get. In 
fact, this tax package makes it clear the breaks are going to be even 
more lucrative in the future. Consider it the gift that keeps on giving 
for America's most privileged and powerful.
  So there it is. Cuts in programs for our kids to fund tax breaks for 
the most privileged. The contract for America is bad news for this 
country because it is bad news for our kids.


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