Patricia Schroeder: “as we end this session, I want to show two pictures, because pictures are worth a thousand words, so they say. This is…”

“as we end this session, I want to show two pictures, because pictures are worth a thousand words, so they say. This is the picture of what we are going to be doing when we get to the Defense Department bill. Yes, it is very historic. For the first time since I can ever remember, and believe me, I am old with this gray hair, for the first time since I can ever remember, we are giving them $8 billion that even the Pentagon did not want. Yes, the GOP elephant is carrying this pork right into the Defense Department. You do not want it, you get it. You get B-2 bombers, get all sorts of missiles, you get anything you want. Here it comes. Maybe they will even gift wrap it. Who knows? I find that absolutely outrageous when at the very same time we are going to be taking up Labor-HHS and in there we are attacking children right and left. We are throwing 60,000 children out of Head Start. That does not make me very proud. We are taking a 60-percent cut in safe and drug-free schools. As a parent I am outraged. I could go on with the whole list. But remember these two pictures. This is the new priority of this new Congress. I am ashamed.”