[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 70 (Monday, May 1, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5869]
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                         BATTLE AGAINST POVERTY

  Mr. SIMON. Mr. President, I will try not to strain the patience of my 
colleague from Washington.
  First, in response to the dialog that has just taken place between 
the Senator from Texas and the Senator from Minnesota, the Government 
clearly is not the answer for all of our problems. But I would point 
out that when we had what was called a war on poverty--which was really 
not a war on poverty, but at least a battle against poverty--we ended 
up at one point with 16 percent of the children of America living in 
poverty, down from 23 percent. We are now back up to 23 percent, and we 
ought to do better. That is Government policy, it is private sector, it 
is all of us working together.

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