[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2496]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          RESTORE WIC FUNDING

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues on the 
Committee on Rules to support an amendment to restore the full $76 
million needed for the women, infants and children program. Let me make 
three important points about this funding.
  WIC is a program that works. If we restore the $38 million today, we 
will actually save the Federal Government over $100 million down the 
road. Second, the States, not the administration, not the Democrats in 
Congress, the States say that they need this money or else they will be 
forced to remove women and children from the WIC Program.
  Finally, let us remember the values that made this Nation great. We 
simply cannot in good conscience take food off the breakfast tables of 
the most vulnerable members of our society. I urge the Committee on 
Rules to allow this amendment. I urge my colleagues to restore the full 
amount of the President's authorization for women, infants, and 
children in this country.

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