[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 118 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7264]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  LET US NOT ROB OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE

  (Mr. ENGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, there go our Republican friends again. First 
they cut Medicare to give tax breaks to the rich, and now they are 
cutting education, our children's future, to give tax breaks to the 
rich.
  A subcommittee today is cutting $3.9 billion off education, robbing 
America's children. Goals 2000, setting education standards, cut; safe 
and drug-free schools, cut; chapter 1 funding to help our schools, cut; 
Eisenhower Program for teacher training, cut; and adult and vocational 
training, cut. And why? To give tax breaks for the rich.
  What will this mean to middle class America? More students per class, 
and local and State property taxes increasing. Student loans were taken 
away from our children by the Republicans, and now, on top of Medicare, 
they are going to cut education again.
  These are middle-class kids that are going to suffer. Eighty-nine 
percent of jobs created in this country require postsecondary training. 
What are the Republicans doing for that? Cut again.
  We have a plan. It is a plan of compassion. Let us fix what needs to 
be fixed, but let us not cut and rob our children's future.

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