[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               VOTE ``NO'' ON THE TEMPORARY FUNDING BILL

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, today we will do a temporary funding billing 
that will cut environmental enforcement programs for the Clean Water 
Act, the safe drinking water program. We will cut out the COPS Program 
and replace it with a block grant program that does not guarantee one 
more police officer on the streets of America. But the biggest cuts are 
in education, $3.3 billion in education.
  In my district of northern Michigan, some of my counties, such as 
Antrim County, will lose $100,000; Cheboygan, $130,000; Grand Traverse 
County, over $200,000. What about college student loans? Over $4 
billion in cuts in college student loans.
  Mr. Speaker, we need programs that will support an increasing of 
wages for our workers. We need a program that will assure them good 
benefits and a secure retirement. We should be investing in education 
and training and not cutting it. Therefore, I will vote no on this 
temporary funding bill today.

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