[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3578]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 GO AFTER THE CHEATS, NOT THE CHILDREN

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt that the American people 
want us to fix the broken welfare system. There is too much fraud and 
abuse in it, especially in the Food Stamp Program. But they want us to 
go after the cheats, not the children.
  A U.S.A. Today editorial the other day, not a Democrat or a 
Republican 1-minute speech, said this about the Republican proposal:

       Today if people are thrown out of work by recession and 
     their children's nutrition is jeopardized, Federal school 
     lunch aid rises. The GOP plan erases that protection. It 
     could divert up to 20 percent to other programs.

   Mr. Speaker, this bill, this welfare bill does an amazing thing, it 
unifies the Children's Defense Fund and the Right to Life Organization 
who both oppose this bill because it is extreme and it is coldhearted 
to our Nation's children.

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