[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CONTINUING RESOLUTIONS HURTING AMERICA'S CHILDREN

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Madam Speaker, today House Republicans will bring up 
another temporary funding bill to keep the Government running for 
another week. Sound familiar? It should, because that is exactly what 
happened last week.
  If enacted, this will be the 11th temporary spending bill to become 
law this year. Republicans are lurching from one temporary bill to the 
other, desperately clinging to their deep cuts in education and 
environmental protection.
  It is almost halfway through the Federal fiscal year, and Republicans 
still have not funded major parts of the Government for the rest of the 
year. Among those paying the price for these budget games are local 
school districts. Many have already let teachers go because they still 
do not know if they will get enough funding to hire them for next year. 
This is unfair to our Nation's children, who will suffer from larger 
classes and less help with basic skills like reading and writing. But 
who asked for these deep education cuts? Certainly not working 
families, who overwhelmingly support funding for education.
  Let us not hold education hostage to politics.

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