[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 29497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  WHO IS TAKING CARE OF OUR CHILDREN?

  (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, the end of the session is almost here. Over 
this session, the last year, Congress has passed funding for the F-22, 
tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, and appropriations bills that 
busted the budget caps.
  But while the Republican leadership is taking care of special 
interests, I want to know who is taking care of our children. Our 
children continue to lack access to quality health care, attend 
dilapidated schools and die at a rate of 13 a day due to handgun 
violence.
  Mr. Speaker, our children are 25 percent of our population, but they 
are 100 percent of our future, and I ask my colleagues, who is taking 
care of them? They do not need rhetoric, they need action.
  So again, I ask my Republican colleagues, while they are taking care 
of special interests, who is taking care of our children?

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