Political Quotes

“once again, I think we have to make the facts known, especially in light of the last speaker. We are not cutting this program. We are increasing this program. Here are the charts. Now, that chart is a hypothetical, what if, and I guess I could say that in an expenditure where we would hypothetically have $20 billion or $30 billion to care for some type of children's program, I could say we should have $60 billion to care for it, so we have really shortened and shortchanged that program. That is what this chart is. That is exactly what this chart is. The fact remains we are increasing it. Something I am going to agree about with the last speaker about a successful program. yesterday I was in Zanesville, OH, Muskingum County, Mr. Speaker, and the people that run the WIC program were in, and it is a successful program, and it is a good program, and I believe that we have recognized that time and time again. We are recognizing it again and again and again by saying we believe in it and we are going to increase it, and here is the chart that tells we are going to do it. So we have not said it is a bad program. We have no question of the effectiveness of the program. We have no question how it has helped people. But I have got to tell you, they call this the well. They ought to rename it the swamp, because I think we get to a low point when we come in and bring a picture in and try to say that by increasing this we are going to do harm to children.”