[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 35 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CUTS FOR SCHOOLS AND THE SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, $3.3 billion in cuts for our 
schools and major cuts for our teachers and for our young children. 
Then when our young children grow up to try and have a sense of 
independence and work in the Summer Youth Program, what do the 
Republicans do? They cut it.
  Let me tell Members about a young person in my community. At the age 
of 2 and shortly after her mother married her stepfather, her family 
was involved in a car wreck that left her father permanently disabled. 
As a result of the wreck, this young child was injured so severely that 
she lost her spleen and left kidney. Yet she participated in the Summer 
Youth Program.
  She lives at home. She keeps a little of her money and the rest of it 
she gives to her family for their needs. The family is on SSI. She has 
worked for the Smiley High School, the Texas Children's Hospital. She 
is trying to make a difference in her life.
  There is no Summer Youth Job Program in this budget by the 
Republicans, no hope for our youth. No schools, no teachers, nothing 
for our young children and nothing for our youth. What are we talking 
about? Summer jobs are hope for the future.

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