[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1778]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, these followers of Speaker Gingrich have 
threatened the health care security of millions of seniors in America 
with Medicare cuts. They demonstrated, as Gingrichites, such 
indifference to the job insecurity of American working families that 
now they are even being criticized within their own party.
  But to top it all off, they come to this Congress today proposing to 
place more hurdles in the way of our youngest Americans with reference 
to educational opportunities. Yes, the cuts that the propose in 
education are very real.
  In my home town of Austin, the school district is contemplating 
having to cut the opportunity in half for 2,200 young Austinites with 
reference to their prekindergarten program, just slashing it in half 
solely as a result of these Federal cuts.
  As one AISD official, Gloria Williams, said, if the pots gets smaller 
and the number of kids gets larger, we will not be able to support a 
full day prekindergarten program. There is no doubt we have an 
education deficit in this country because these followers of Newt 
Gingrich just cannot seem to learn.

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