[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 53 (Wednesday, March 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3419-H3420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             AGAINST REPUBLICAN PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, the second campaign in the war on poor people 
has begun. This time the wounded and the victims will be poor children. 
Hot school lunches and hot breakfasts, WIC that provides nutrition and 
education that helps to reduce low birth weight 
[[Page H3420]] babies, food for day care centers, support for foster 
children, protection for abused children, day care for the children of 
working families, all of these will be cut under the so-called Personal 
Responsibility Act. However, these are hardly welfare programs. These 
are the very supports which keep children healthy and allow working 
families to stay off welfare and continue working. Why then are they 
included in the Republican welfare bill? All of these cuts will just 
about pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent in our country. The 
wealthiest 2 percent, the families with more than $200,000 of income, 
will be taking the advantage from this.
  I ask my colleagues to join with me in voting against the Personal 
Responsibility Act. It is time to stop this insanity.

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