[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             DO NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET ON BACKS OF CHILDREN

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, it is amazing. Never did I think I would 
be down here saying, ``Listen to the Senate,'' but here I am saying, 
``Listen to the Senate,'' because they are speaking words we should 
hear here.
  Yesterday they voted 84 to 16, and they said very clearly, ``You do 
not balance the budget on the backs of America's children. You do not 
balance the budget on the backs of America's future.'' These are not 
the people that caused this deficit. B-2 bombers caused this deficit. 
All sorts of other pork projects caused this deficit.
  Mr. Speaker, I think we have to get down to the specifics of how we 
do it. And to do this on children, children that do not have political 
action committees, children who do not have Gucci-shoed lawyers, they 
are the easy ones to shove out in the cold and say, ``We have to 
balance the budget.'' We do that, and we have shortchanged the future 
of this Nation.
  Listen to the Senate. They have understood how extreme the other side 
of this aisle is on those issues. Do not cut Head Start, do not cut 
drug-free schools, and do not demolish our future.

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