[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 135 (Thursday, October 3, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6211]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, over 186,000 students in Clark County School 
District in Las Vegas receive free or reduced school meals, and for 
many this school meal is the only food they'll eat all day. Yet this 
destructive government shutdown has cut off Federal funding for school 
meals, leaving school districts to struggle to feed their students with 
budgets already devastated by the sequestration.
  Hungry children come to school unprepared to learn, and school meals 
give them the opportunity that they need to succeed. Children who eat a 
school breakfast are better able to score higher on academic tests, 
they're less likely to miss school, and they're more likely to 
graduate. Despite this, Republicans are preventing Federal funds from 
buying food for these students.
  With 28 percent of children in Nevada at risk of going hungry, we 
should be doing everything we can to feed these students. The 
Republican shutdown is doing the opposite. It's harming vulnerable 
children by literally taking food from the mouths of babes.
  Shame on these Republicans. They must end this shutdown now.

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