[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 129 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1643]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND 
               RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1996

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                               speech of

                          HON. LAMAR S. SMITH

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, August 2, 1995

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the State of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 2127) making 
     appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human 
     Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal 
     year ending September 30, 1996, and for other purposes:

  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Chairman, as a member of the Budget 
Committeee that produced the first balanced budget in 25 years, I rise 
in strong support of the Labor/HHS appropriations bill. This bill 
provides Federal support for such important activities as biomedical 
research, Head Start, and special and higher education.
  In other areas, this appropriations bill returns power, money, and 
control where it belongs: to our families for decisions around the 
kitchen table, to our neighborhoods, and to our State and local 
governments. Rather than education Presidents, this bill creates 
education classrooms and empowers education parents across America.
  Some of the same people who opposed our balanced budget and have 
opposed every attempt to control the Federal deficit have resoted to 
demagoguery to attack this appropriations bill. With no positive plan 
of their own, they try to scare students and the parents of students 
about education spending.
  Don't believe these purveyors of doubt, doom, and deficits. The 
question is not whether or how much we'll spend on education. The 
difference between our balanced budget that this appropriations bill is 
an essential part of, and the Clinton bogus budget, is who will do the 
spending.
  The Clinton bogus budget assumes that Government knows what's best 
for your children. It provides for a big bureaucratic Department of 
Education and tells parents what your children should learn.
  The American people know better. And this Congress was elected to be 
different. Support our education parents. Return power to our families 
and local communities. Vote in favor of the Labor/HHS appropriations 
bill, an essential building block of our balanced budget.


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