[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8496]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   SALUTE TO WIC ON 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of one of our 
Nation's most valuable programs, Women, Infants and Children, more 
popularly known as WIC.
  The WIC program has been serving women and children across America 
for 25 years. The valuable service provided by WIC includes nutritional 
counseling, the supply of supplemental nutritional foods to children 
and an excellent health referral system.
  WIC continues to be effective in improving the health of pregnant 
women, new mothers and infants. Studies show that WIC participants are 
more likely to have full term pregnancy, lower medical costs, higher 
birth weight babies and lower infant mortality rates.
  On this anniversary of 25 years, I salute WIC for providing such 
outstanding service. We must all remember a healthy start is a great 
start.

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