[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 127 (Wednesday, August 2, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8182]
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           OUTRAGED AND ASHAMED OF PRIORITIES OF NEW MAJORITY

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, as we end this session, I want to show 
two pictures, because pictures are worth a thousand words, so they say.
  This is the picture of what we are going to be doing when we get to 
the Defense Department bill. Yes, it is very historic. For the first 
time since I can ever remember, and believe me, I am old with this gray 
hair, for the first time since I can ever remember, we are giving them 
$8 billion that even the Pentagon did not want.
  Yes, the GOP elephant is carrying this pork right into the Defense 
Department. You do not want it, you get it. You get B-2 bombers, get 
all sorts of missiles, you get anything you want. Here it comes. Maybe 
they will even gift wrap it. Who knows?
  I find that absolutely outrageous when at the very same time we are 
going to be taking up Labor-HHS and in there we are attacking children 
right and left. We are throwing 60,000 children out of Head Start. That
 does not make me very proud. We are taking a 60-percent cut in safe 
and drug-free schools. As a parent I am outraged. I could go on with 
the whole list. But remember these two pictures. This is the new 
priority of this new Congress. I am ashamed.
  Today in my district an innovative new program is being launched to 
help kids and families and reduce teen violence.
  Two years ago I teamed up with Attorney General Janet Reno, Colorado 
Gov. Roy Romer, Denver Mayor Wellington Webb and Aurora Mayor Paul 
Tauer to begin finding innovative solutions to urban violence in the 
metropolitan Denver area. The partnership is called Project PACT 
[Pulling America's Communities Together], an initiative being piloted 
by the U.S. Department of Justice.
  In addition to coordinating law enforcement activities throughout the 
metro area, Project PACT encourages innovative preventive strategies. 
This summer Project PACT teamed up with Ticketmaster--the Nation's 
leading ticket sales outlet--and Mile High United Way to create an 
activities-for-kids hotline.
  Starting today, Colorado parents can call the Ticketmaster/PACT safe 
summer hotline and get a listing of arts, sports, and recreation 
activities in any metro Denver neighborhood. The hotline will be 
piloted for the month of August and will run all next summer.
  Ticketmaster is interested in replicating this hotline in other urban 
districts around the country. I encourage you to look into working with 
your local United Way, Ticketmaster and other public and private 
partners to create a safe summer hotline. Innovative strategies like 
this one need to be supported and replicated, and I am proud to have 
this hotline in my district.


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