[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 34 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H1288]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PROPOSED BUDGET NEGLECTS CHILDREN AND SENIORS

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, every policy decision we make here in the 
House affects our children, and today we are going to consider a 
Republican budget resolution that does not consider the needs of our 
children.
  Their budget resolution increases the national defense budget by over 
$17 billion in the year 2001, while increasing education spending by 
only $2 billion. That is $15 billion less. What a disgrace.
  We spend billions of dollars each year on nuclear weapons, but we 
have to scrape together money for new schools, we have to scrape 
together money for critical school breakfast programs. It is wrong. It 
is wrong for our children, it is wrong for our Nation.
  Our children need us to invest in their future. They need us to 
invest in education, they need Social Security and Medicare protected 
for their future, and they need the national debt paid down. By the 
way, this works to help our seniors also.
  The Republican budget resolution takes care of millionaires and their 
risky tax breaks, but it does not take care of our seniors and our 
children.

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