NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “As we engage in this debate, in this new partnership, the American people really should write, write any of us, Members…”

“As we engage in this debate, in this new partnership, the American people really should write, write any of us, Members of the House, and ask for these numbers; specifically, the GOP proposed spending on WIC and School Lunch Programs. We will be happy to supply those numbers, and challenge our friends on the other side to talk about this term ``cuts,'' because again, there are no cuts. In the popular imagination, the only ``cuts'' are decreases in future increases in expenditures. Again, only in this culture, only in this curious combination and curious advantage-taking of political opportunism can that term even be bandied about. I guarantee, I say to the gentleman from Georgia, and Mr. Speaker, the families gathered around the kitchen table making hard decisions about the family budget deal with real cuts, not phantom cuts and not theatrics. I noted with interest my good friend, the gentleman from Missouri, who really started the special orders tonight, I think his information was inaccurate. This is the real story.”