[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3162-H3163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   REPUBLICAN CUTS WILL HURT CHILDREN

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, I listened carefully last evening to 
the remarks of a Republican Member and other colleagues from the other 
side of the aisle as they rose in protest of what they want America to 
believe is the big lie.
  They say Democrats are lying about the proposed cuts to school lunch 
and breakfast programs. They say that they are not really cutting the 
critically important programs, they are only slowing the rate at which 
they will be allowed to grow; except hungry stomachs continue to grow. 
They say they are not really cutting these.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, because of the Department of Education figures 
that project that the population of elementary and schoolchildren will 
increase substantially, some 8 percent during the same period that the 
GOP spending cuts will slow the rate of growth for nutrition programs, 
the net result is not a big lie, it is a big cut.
  [[Page H3163]] Mr. Speaker, I am new to this body, but as one who has 
kept a watchful eye on its goings on, I can clearly remember year after 
year Republican charges that Democrats are cutting defense when in fact 
Democrats only sought to slow the growth of Pentagon spending.
  What is good for the goose is good for the gander, Mr. Speaker. My 
colleagues from the other side of the aisle cannot have it both ways.
  When the tax cut is going to help not working Americans but those who 
have it already, I would say let the other guys miss a meal. I do not 
want our children to miss a meal. Let us not cut school breakfast and 
school lunches. Our children of America simply need to eat.

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