This offset is not designed to create hunger among children. I would point out to my colleague from Minnesota that if he were here earlier, he would have seen the drastic slashes that the President's budget proposes in the feeding program for women, infants, and children. This is a program devoted to providing vitally needed nutrition.
Discussing the impact of budget cuts on nutrition programs for women and children.
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I don't think so. I think this -- and African-American communities like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting.
All Americans ought to enjoy civil rights, and whatever the court does today, we are going to move a step closer to everyone enjoying these rights.
Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.
Any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
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