[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 79 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4902-H4903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        BALANCE PRIORITIES FIRST

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, you can take each dollar that the majority 
plans to spend on the wealthy through their tax break and spend it on 
older Americans through Medicare and still have moneys to balance the 
budget come the year 2002.
  One wonders why there is such an insistence by the majority to take 
from the poor and give to the wealthy. When 
[[Page H4903]] one examines the record, you see a consistent pattern. 
That consistent pattern says if you are a pregnant woman, you are out 
of luck, and if you are an infant baby, certainly you do not count, and 
if you are from rural America, you can be ignored, and if you are poor, 
you do not matter, and if you are a senior citizen, you are too late.
  This weekend we will celebrate Mother's Day. Mothers have always 
taught us, and we are reminded on Mother's Day, get your priorities 
right. How we spend our moneys and where we spend our moneys says a lot 
about us. It says what is important. It says to America that those who 
spend more than $200,000 certainly are of more consequence than those 
who earn less.
  It says to America that mothers do not count. It says to the working 
America we have nothing at all to celebrate this Mother's Day.


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