[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       THE HOUSE-PASSED BUDGET RESOLUTION IS INHUMAN TO CHILDREN

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, last night we passed a budget resolution 
in this House which is predicated on the passage of welfare reform. I 
sat in the Committee on Ways and Means as we took away the economic 
security for children and women in this country.
  I want to use just the example of the State of Washington. If today 
every one of the 100,000 people on welfare said, ``I am going to quit 
being shiftless and not caring, and I am going to go down and get a 
job,'' they would meet the 173,000 people who are on unemployment in 
our State. If we count all those people, it is about 200,000 people in 
the State of Washington today that do not have a job.
  Last year we created people 44,000 jobs. Those 44,000 jobs clearly 
are not going to take care of the 200,000 people who would be standing 
in line asking for a job. Their children would have no guarantee of 
food and no guarantee of health care. That budget resolution was 
inhuman to kids in this country.

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