[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]


            VOTE AGAINST H.R. 4, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I too voted for real welfare 
reform under the Deal bill. But the Republican welfare bill, commonly 
known as the let-the-children-go-hungry-so-the-rich-can-feast bill, 
cuts $66 billion from school breakfasts and lunches, food stamps from 
the elderly retirees and working poor, child care from working mothers, 
and yet the mean-spirited radical right majority says they are not 
cutting any of these programs but spending more.
  Sorry, folks. They are cutting $66 billion from the needy, from 
school lunches and breakfasts, from the Women, Infants and Children 
Program, from food stamps, from AFDC and from child care, in order to 
give those billions to large corporations and the wealthy in tax cuts 
next week.
  It is a sad day for our great Nation when this Congress, the people's 
house, takes food from the mouths of innocent children so that the rich 
can have pheasant under glass.
  Vote against H.R. 4. It only punishes babies and children and it does 
not reform welfare.


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