[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4339]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


               LEFT WANTING BY THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, let me get this contract correct. If I am a 
child and I happened to be born to a mother who is of the wrong age or 
who has been on assistance for too long, then the Contract With America 
leaves me wanting just because of the circumstances surrounding my 
birth. If I am a child and my mother would happened to depend on WIC, 
that money is now going to be block-granted, and 20 percent of it can 
be used for other things. The same thing for school lunch, if I am 
dependent upon school lunches, we are now going to have 50 laboratories 
across this country where people will be able to take as much of that 
money out, 20 percent of it, and use it for paving highways and for 
doing all sorts of other things.
  If I survive all of that under the Contract With America, Mr. 
Speaker, let me understand this, if I get to be 14 or 15 years old, and 
I want to learn the work ethic, I want a summer job, the Contract With 
America leaves me with no summer job and no opportunity to rebuild my 
community.
  Let me understand that also, Mr. Speaker, that then if I want to go 
to college and get the same kind of federally backed loans that the 
Speaker and the majority leader had, now again, I am going to be left 
wanting by the Contract With America.

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