[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10853]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              THE BUDGET RECONCILIATION BILL AND CHILDREN

  (Mr. NADLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. NADLER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to express my outrage that, in the 
Republican rush to bestow a $245 billion tax cut for America's 
wealthiest citizens, we are being asked to leave the futures of our 
children behind. This is nothing less than immoral.
  While the wealthiest Americans will receive a $20,000 windfall under 
the Republican budget, our Nation's abused and neglected children will 
suffer under a 19 percent cut in funding for programs offering child 
protection. By 2002, almost 200,000 children will be denied access to 
Head Start. Medicaid coverage for as many as 4.4 million children will 
be eliminated by 2002.
  And the Republican budget denies 1 million women infant mortality 
assistance, affecting the births of 74,000 infants each year, giving 
new meaning to the phrase, ``women and children first.''
  Mr. Speaker, let us not throw our Nation's children overboard. Let us 
reject these immoral cuts, and oppose the Republican budget 
reconciliation bill.

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