[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3581]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      GOODBYE MILK, HELLO KOOL-AID

  (Mr. POMEROY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POMEROY. Mr. Chairman, while both parties support welfare reform, 
there is something terribly unseemly about the debate under way in the 
House. Well-fed speaker after well-fed speaker has gotten up and argued 
passionately for the Republican proposal which makes deep cuts in the 
nutritional program helping infants at home, toddlers in day care and 
kids in school.
  My abundantly nourished Republican friends maintain they are not 
cutting anything. But the numbers tell quite a different story. The 
Congressional Budget Office, which they control, says more than $22 
billion will be removed from the nutritional spending. The only way you 
get this much money from nutrition programs is by sharply reducing the 
quality and nutritional value of these programs which help these kids 
who need them so badly. For kids all across the country, it is goodbye 
milk, hello Kool-Aid. I wonder how my comfortable, well-fed colleagues 
would like a diet like that for themselves?


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