Lynn C. Woolsey: “every policy decision we make here in the House affects our children, and today we are going to consider a Republican…”

“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.”