[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4115]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SSI AND TRAINING CUTS

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, I heard my Republican colleague, but my 
name is Sheila, and I want to be here to represent what is best for the 
working man and woman in America, and not to support billionaire tax 
loopholes. The tax-cut package being offered by the leadership on the 
other side certainly does not respond to them. But aside from the fact 
that their plan ignores deficit reduction, the fact remains that their 
plan still looks to cut taxes for America's upper-income brackets while 
imposing greater burdens on working- and middle-class families.
  Now, to pay for more billionaire-friendly tax breaks, the other side 
wants to cut $13 billion from student loan programs--student loans that 
make college dreams possible for millions of American students and 
their working- and middle-class parents.
  Mr. Speaker, my family worked hard to capture a part of the American 
dream. They also worked hard to give their children a chance to 
succeed. Yet, if there were not Government-backed student loans, I 
would not have been able to go to college or get a graduate education.
  I would like to think my education was a good investment for America. 
I have paid back my loans with interest, so I cannot understand why the 
other side seems bent on slashing the loan program now, just as America 
needs well-educated citizens and workers more than ever. But yet Rupert 
Murdoch can walk these Halls undercover, and the Republicans will give 
our tax dollars to his deal alone. I do not understand it, Mr. Speaker.


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