[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 55 (Friday, March 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      MAKING WAR ON POOR CHILDREN

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend is remarks.)
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans say that the war on poverty 
has been lost so they are making war on poor children instead. I have 
got to hand it to them, though, they do not just target welfare kids, 
the Republican contract on America cuts income and food stamps and 
school breakfast and lunches, and nutrition for young mothers and care 
for abused children, and day care for children while their parents 
work, $50 billion in cuts for nearly 10 million families whose income 
is less than $20,000 a year, both working families and nonworking 
families, the Republicans do not seem to care which, families where 
more than 20 million children get their start in life.
  Are the Republicans using those $50 billion to cut the explosion of 
deficits from 12 years under voodoo economics? Not on your life. They 
are using those $50 billion taken from low-income families and their 
children to give tax cuts to the richest 2 percent of Americans.
  Only in Newt Gingrich's America would taking $50 billion from 25 
percent of Americans and giving it to American millionaires be even 
thinkable.


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