[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     A BAD REPUBLICAN WELFARE BILL

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I was proud last night to join all my 
Democratic colleagues in voting for real welfare reform. The Deal 
substitute was real welfare reform--it demands more responsibility by 
requiring that welfare recipients go to work after 2 years, and it 
provides more opportunity by making sure that that work pays more than 
welfare.
  But the Republican bill before us today is more intent on punishing 
our children than in putting welfare recipients to work.
  This bill would cut $2.3 billion from school-based nutrition programs 
and $7 billion from all child nutrition programs over the next 5 years. 
That means 2 million children would be thrown out of the School Lunch 
Program--20,000 in my home State of Connecticut alone.
  This Republican bill punishes children in order to pay for a tax cut 
for the wealthiest Americans, the richest 1 percent of the people in 
this Nation. That is what this is all about. Today we can stop this war 
on kids. Vote against a bad Republican bill.

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