[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 149 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H11071]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    OPPOSE SEVERE REPUBLICAN CUTS TO OUR NATION'S DOMESTIC PROGRAMS

  (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call attention to the 
actions of the House. We are engaged in a very serious matter this week 
as we near a budget reconciliation. The Republican leadership is urging 
that we make severe cuts to our Nation's domestic programs, and, as my 
colleagues know, this is just after the last 4 or 5 months when they 
said there was so much money there they could return $800 billion. But 
today they are telling us not only can they not do that, but they have 
got to cut the funding programs of the national government.
  Mr. Speaker, as the daughter of a school teacher and a member of the 
House Committee on Education and the Workforce, I am particularly 
concerned that education will be severely affected. The majority 
spending bill would cut the national class size reduction program, 
after-school care, reading and math programs, Head Start and teacher 
training programs; but the damage would extend beyond the classroom. It 
would hit senior citizens, American working families, family 
caregivers, even the survivors of Hurricane Floyd.
  I will oppose the HHS bill today, and I hope the rest of my 
colleagues will also.

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