[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 93 (Thursday, June 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5696]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS BRIGHTEN WITH PRESIDENT'S VETO OF 
                            RESCISSIONS BILL

  (Mrs. MALONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning to commend President 
Clinton for vetoing a bill that took food out of the mouths of 
children, heat out of the homes of the elderly, and trees out of 
national forests.
  The bill cut student loans and summer jobs for young Americans trying 
to do something with their lives. It used money for those programs to 
provide timber barons with massive Government subsidies. This is a 
clear-cut case of clearcutting.
  The new majority has taken a chain saw to education funding and to 
our disappearing natural resources. But the President's pen was 
mightier than the chain saw.
  His first veto was a defining one. He stuck up for education and the 
environment.
  The Republicans stuck up for corporate welfare and environmental 
destruction.
  Mr. Speaker, the new majority has passed some awful legislation. I 
hope the President's veto pen has plenty of ink.


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