[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5909]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                        PROGRAMS AMERICANS NEED

  (Mr. SANDERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SANDERS. Mr. Speaker, this country has a $4.6 trillion national 
debt, and the leadership in Congress is proposing major cuts in 
Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' programs, student loans, Head Start, 
nutrition programs, and millions of dollars in cuts in programs that 
Americans all over this country desperately need.
  Within that context, how in God's name could the Congress last night 
vote to expand the B-2 bomber program and spend another $1.5 billion 
per airplane for another 20 planes? This despite the fact that the 
Pentagon has said they do not need the planes, they do not want the 
planes.
  Would it not be a good thing if the elderly and the young and the 
sick had friends in this Congress to the degree that the B-2 bomber 
does?

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