Nita Lowey: “I'm delighted to yield 2 minutes to my friend, the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished ranking…”

“I'm delighted to yield 2 minutes to my friend, the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the distinguished ranking member of the Labor, Health, Human Services, Education Subcommittee. Ms. DeLAURO. I rise in strong opposition to this continuing resolution. It makes permanent, deep, indiscriminate, and harmful across-the-board cuts--cuts that will cost our country hundreds of thousands of jobs, and will hamstring our economic recovery. It will cost 750,000 jobs, according to the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. If you vote ``yes'': You vote for $400 million in cuts to Head Start--70,000 children will lose access; You vote to slash $282 million from job training programs; You vote to cut $731 million from Title I grants--that means 2,500 schools will be forced to stop providing this crucial aid to 1 million children; You are voting to cut over $580 million from special education grants--that shifts the cost of 300,000 students with special needs to State and local education agencies; You vote to cut $115 million from child care at a time when only one in six of the children eligible for child care assistance are receiving it--30,000 more kids will lose this aid; You vote to starve implementation of the Affordable Care Act at a time when the health reforms we passed are being implemented; You vote to cut funding for vaccinations and cancer screenings.…”