[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 92 (Thursday, June 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            SUPPORT FAMILIES FIRST, NOT THE GINGRICH BUDGET

  (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, I am extremely happy this 
morning that we finally have the real news that I hope America can 
attend to, and that is that the rich earn more than all of the middle 
class. Does anyone realize that there are Americans making $7,800 a 
year?
  Maybe that will cease and desist all of the talk shows who begin to 
talk about those who do not want to work and those who do not want to 
do, and begin to understand what the Democrats are speaking about in 
not cutting Medicare and Medicaid, what the Democrats are speaking 
about in offering a new agenda for America, and that is families first, 
so that we can send our young people to college, so that we can keep 
the Pell grants, so that we can ensure that the environment is safe, 
and yes, so that we can increase the minimum wage for those individuals 
who want to take to the work rolls and not to the deadbeat rolls.
  I hope that we will reject the Gingrich budget that does not put 
families first, and that now for once the truth will be known: The rich 
are getting richer and the poor, yes, are getting poorer, and the 
middle class are caught in between. Join us in an effort to make sure 
that this Congress speaks for families first and not support the 
Gingrich budget.

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