[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 127 (Wednesday, August 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REPUBLICAN PRIORITIES ARE WRONG

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans' defense appropriations bill 
earmarks $493 million to begin production of the first two unneeded B-2 
bombers. But the Republicans' education appropriations bill which we 
debate today cuts funds for education.
  Safe and drug-free schools, special education, art in schools, adult 
education, education for gifted children, and public library funding 
all will be slashed. Education for homeless children will be 
eliminated, gone. Dropout prevention, gone. The national writing 
project, gone. The teacher corps, gone. Workplace literacy programs, 
gone.
  The irony here is that every single one of the cuts I just mentioned, 
plus many more, added together equals less than the startup costs of 
those two unneeded B-2 bombers.
  Cuts in education on the one hand, more money to build unneeded B-2 
bombers on the other hand. The Republican priorities are wrong.

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