[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 116 (Tuesday, July 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7081]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         KEEP PROGRAMS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL TO THE MIDDLE CLASS

  (Mr. KLINK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KLINK. Mr. Speaker, we have been dwelling on Medicare cuts for 
quite some time during these 1-minute remarks and for good reason. But 
the gentleman from Indiana who spoke two speakers previous to me talked 
about cuts in Head Start. He reminded me of a Head Start Program that I 
visited back in my own district. You could tell when they serve the 
lunches to these young children at Head Start that some of them had not 
eaten in quite a long time.
  Now, the whole question is, How can you be prepared to learn if you 
do not have food on your stomach? How can you be prepared to learn when 
you are not getting that instruction at home? The parents did get them 
enrolled in the Head Start Program. Teachers talked about the fact that 
they had made great strides not only with these youngsters preparing 
them to learn but also with the parents themselves.
  Cuts on college loans, cuts on Head Start, cuts in Medicare, cuts in 
Medicaid, these are going to hurt our people, and also that we can get 
$245 billion in tax cuts prior to balancing the budget. The elimination 
of corporate taxes and nonrefundable $500 per child, lower capital 
gains, this is not going to mean much to the middle class. But 
Medicare, Head Start, college loans, all of these things mean a great 
deal.

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