[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4343]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                    SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM

  (Mr. OWENS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that the Senate has not 
restored the Summer Youth Employment Program in the rescissions 
package. The rescissions package zeroed out the Summer Youth Employment 
Program, a very vitally needed program across the Nation in both rural 
and urban communities. Thirty-two thousand youngsters, teenagers, were 
employed last summer in the New York City Summer Youth Program.

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  I am disappointed in the Senate, but I am shocked at the rumor I hear 
that the President will support this package and not veto it. If the 
President does not veto this package, it is an abandonment of the youth 
in our cities. We are going to restore money for national service. At 
the same time, you are going to leave the zero out for the Summer Youth 
Employment Program. That is unfair to any national service components 
that are going to go into our cities. To go into our cities and not 
have the youth there employed when they get there, they are going to 
find a hostile environment, I assure you.
  I appeal to the President. He should demand the restoration of the 
Summer Youth Employment Program or veto the bill. Please do not 
abandoned the poorest teenagers in America.


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