[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   LET'S CHANGE THIS JEWEL OF DENIAL

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks and include 
extraneous material.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, there is a flaw in the jewel. 
We will begin debate today on a bill that will cut taxes, and the 
winners who will receive the majority of the cuts are families with 
incomes over $100,000. The losers will be deficit reduction, summer 
jobs, school lunches, and education funding. The Speaker calls this the 
crown jewel of the contract. Well, this crown jewel in 1999 will cause 
us deficits of over $200 billion.
  There is a flaw in this jewel. Unfortunately, to pay for this jewel 
many young people will lose. Thousands of teenagers will be denied a 
summer job, school children will be denied a meal, legal immigrants 
will be denied services for the $66 billion welfare reform to the 
cracked crown jewel, seniors will be denied by cutting energy 
assistance, safe and drug-free schools will be denied $500 million, 
college students will be denied $13 billion to help pay for the flawed 
jewel. The contract was a deal with the rich including unpatriotic 
families who are leaving our country and taking their billions with 
them.
  Let us change this jewel of denial.

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