[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10753]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS SCORN RURAL AMERICA

  (Mrs. CLAYTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CLAYTON. Mr. Speaker, this week we will vote on proposed budget 
cuts that ignore the past, disregard the present, and worse: Scorns the 
future, especially for rural America.
  Scorn is a harsh word to use in describing the impact of Republican 
budget cuts on our children, but consider what these cuts will do to 
rural children in North Carolina.
  Almost a quarter of a million needy children in North Carolina, and 
4\1/2\ million nationwide will be dropped from Medicaid.
  More than 60,000 North Carolina young people will be denied a summer 
job, 4,000 will lose Head Start, and all 129 school districts will lose 
money for Safe and Drug Free Schools, affecting threequarters of a 
million rural children.
  Nutrition assistance for North Carolina children is cut by more than 
20 percent, $500 million, affecting 320,000 children.
  When combined with housing cuts affecting thousands of North Carolina 
children, the elimination of heating assistance from 200,000 children, 
and the denial of child care help for 20,000 children--scorn may not be 
a harsh enough word--cruel and inhuman might be more appropriate 
choices.

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