[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 92 (Wednesday, June 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5629]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          SUPPORT WORLD SUMMIT FOR CHILDREN IMPLEMENTATION ACT

  (Mrs. MEEK of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, as we consider funding for U.S. 
foreign aid programs, I hope that Congress will remember the needs of 
children and enact the World Summit for Children Implementation Act.
  We have all seen the pitiful photographs and the television videotape 
of children in other countries who are the helpless victims of poverty, 
ignorance, and war--little children who enter life with great hopes but 
few chances, and who suffer terribly because they lack the most basic 
of human needs--nourishing food, safe water, basic vitamins, 
immunization from disease, rudimentary sanitation, and basic education.
  But we do not have to accept present reality. Progress has been made. 
Worldwide, child mortality rates have been cut in half in the last 
three decades. Eighty percent of the world's children are immunized 
against disease, saving 3 million children annually.
  We need to continue this progress, and we can do it by implementing 
the goals of the World Summit for Children Implementation Act.
  This is something we ought to do.

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