[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         GOP BUDGET RESOLUTION

  (Mr. FOGLIETTA asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOGLIETTA. Mr. Speaker, is it any surprise how the Republicans 
would reach a balanced budget in 7 years? By breaking our contract with 
senior citizens, with veterans, with the most vulnerable people in our 
society, and with those of us who live in cities.
  I take the floor today to challenge just one aspect of this 
disastrous plan, that which would bankrupt American mass transit. The 
best way that we can empower people and bring them out of poverty and 
welfare is to help them get jobs and to keep those jobs. This requires 
meeting practical needs, job training, child care, health insurance, 
and mass transit. We must help people get to their jobs on safe, 
dependable, and economical public transit.
  Thus I rise to oppose some of the aspects of this mean-spirited 
budget plan and to oppose, as strongly as I can, the end of the Federal 
Government's commitment to mass transportation.

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