Eva M. Clayton

I want to appeal to those of you who find more sense in being reasonable than to be idealogues. You know, there is a place for public television and a place for public radio, and it is indeed both in the urban and rural areas. I represent…

I oppose this rule. This rule is a gag rule. This is a divisive rule. This rule only allows amendments that pit one good program against another good program. The $25 million cut in WIC can only be restored by cutting at least an equal…

this last Saturday morning in my congressional district, some 500 people gathered together. They gathered at the J.H. Rose High School in Greenville. Some who gathered were men and some who gathered were women. Some who gathered were older…

tomorrow we will consider the rule and the bill on rescissions. That $17 billion cut will begin to fundamentally change the way the Federal Government acts and responds, but more importantly, will begin to change the fundamental way we…

the Republicans say that really they are not cutting nutrition programs, and I do not intend to suggest that they mean to cut and suggest they are not cutting. We are probably looking at this in different ways. I would think that the…

I want to commend the 14 young scientists from the counties of Northampton and Halifax in my congressional district. They are the winners of the 1995 National Electric Car Championships. At the competition, held in Phoenix, AZ, recently…

in our rush to meet an artificial, 100-day goal, it is a fair question to ask, are we hurting more than we are helping? In yesterday's New York Times, an article noted that when the Personal Responsibility Act was marked up by the…

from yesterday morning into the wee hours of this morning, for 15 hours, the Committee on Agriculture marked-up title five of the Personal Responsibility Act. That bill, with great reductions and many restrictions on feeding hungry…

Leadership of the committee is to be commended for eliminating the mandate for block granting the Food Stamp Program. A State option on block grants, however, remains and will be an issue on the floor. Also, during markup, the committee…

I rise to urge early hearings on the proposal to increase the minimum wage. The Speaker has promised to have hearings scheduled. Those hearings should be scheduled soon. We are slashing the school lunch and breakfast program. We are…

I have records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and you will suffer 279 less young people being fed under your program.

A compelling case can be made against the proposal to convert Federal nutrition programs into block grants. That case will be made tonight. Over the next 2 hours, the American public will hear from many of our colleagues about the dangers…

I was thinking in this atmosphere of reduction and deficit reduction, it seems to be pound-foolish and to be penny-wise in trying to cut back on nutrition programs when you put at risk not only kids' learning abilities but also raise the…

You had emphasized the value of nutrition for education. I just wanted you to expand on that in terms of the value of nutrition to reduce the cost of health care. Part of, obviously, why nutrition is valuable is to make sure young people…

My colleague has put her finger really on the crux of this issue. I say do not listen to all of us tonight, listen to us, but talk to the people in our districts who run these programs. These are successful programs. They work. They are…

I believe tonight the case has been made against H.R. 4, particularly the case of the provision to eliminate nutritional programs. We are more than Members of Congress. We are actually public servants and we must remember that our first…

I was just looking at this report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and looked at the State of Georgia and noted that over 108,000 persons will have less nutrition than they have now. These include school aged children, pre-school…

there is a provision in H.R. 4, the Personal Responsibility Act of 1995, that is irresponsible. As written, that provision would convert Federal food assistance programs into block grants. Block grant funds are free funds to State and…

Last Congress we passed legislation to put 100,000 police on the streets. Grants have already been awarded to 17,000 communities across the United States, including several in my State of North Carolina. At least half of the police…

I am receiving a tremendous amount of mail both in the areas of school lunch and in the areas of senior citizen programs. We know the value of having it with young children and pregnant women in terms of those areas, so I would hope, as we…

I support the Scott amendment basically because it questions the blind drive without further study toward incarceration over prevention. Why should we not spend a small amount of money to determine the effectiveness of incarceration? The…

I also want to join in supporting Dr. Foster as the Surgeon General. He is eminently and exceptionally qualified. In fact, his qualifications are not being questioned. His suitability is not being questioned. If there is any question at…

I rise in support of the Watt amendment, and I find it absurd that accountability or how you plan to address crime is asking any State too much. It is, indeed, for the very reason we are appropriating these monies that this amendment makes…

He is substituting the fourth amendment for the language in the bill. Thereby he eliminates efforts we are making to modify the evidentiary rule that the Supreme Court has carved out for search and seizure cases under the fourth amendment.

But does that mean that the Constitution nullifies the gentleman's bill? No. If the Constitution exists it is going to exist whether my bill is passed or not; it does not nullify the bill. But if you pass a provision that strikes what is…