Political Quotes

“the Republican plan to decimate the school lunch program will penalize millions of America's kids, working families, and women, and the Republicans will use the savings to serve up a free lunch of tax cuts and tax concessions to millionaires and large multinational corporations. Conservatives often say that the deficit will be passed on to our kids, but their approach to deficit reduction will mean that our kids will pay now and that they will pay with their potential. Their block grant proposal will block the future of 140,000 kids in Illinois alone. The school lunch program is one of the most successful, one of the most cost-effective, and one of the most important programs that the Federal Government has ever administered. I urge my colleagues to stop the Republicans from keeping this program and America's kids hostage to the Republican Contract on America.”