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




                 KEEP FEDERAL NUTRITION PROGRAMS INTACT

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, the American people certainly do support 
overhauling and reforming this welfare system. It is broken. It needs 
to be fixed. They support cleaning up the fraud and abuse in the food 
stamp program and making this system work to keep our families intact 
and making sure people are forced to work if they take welfare. But the 
American people do not support cutting the food lunch program for 
children.
  Today in the Wall Street Journal, not a liberal paper in America, it 
states that the nutrition program will be cut by $12 billion over 5 
years.
  We have been going back and forth, Democrats and Republicans, arguing 
about who to believe. Is it going to be cut? Who is right?
  Last week in the Wall Street Journal, Jerry Solomon, a prominent 
Republican who knows the budget as well as anybody other than John 
Kasich said this:

       When you're talking about means-testing things like 
     Medicare, cutting back school lunch programs, the necessary 
     programs need to be cut like the U.S. Institute.

  That is proof that this is going to be cut back.
  

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