[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3336]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                              WELFARE WEEK

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, this is welfare week. For me it started not 
in the abstractions of bill language. It started on Sunday when I 
picked up my mentee, a 13-year-old who lives in a D.C. housing project, 
to bring to Sunday's school lunch rally at the Capitol. She gets her 
breakfast and lunch at school.
  Welfare week continued for me at noon today when I went to the 
elementary school I attended as a child. Then we brought our lunch or 
went home to eat it. Today 95 percent of the children in my elementary 
school each lunch at school.
  You can talk until you are red, white, and blue in the face about 
only cutting the growth in school meals. The truth is the School 
Nutrition Programs will lost $2.3 billion over 5 years under the 
contract. A cut in kids' lunches is a foul. Let us stop playing kids' 
games. Pick on somebody your own size.


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