Political Quotes

“last night the majority Republicans made a wise decision in including full funding for the WIC programs. They threatened originally to cut the President's $76 million request for additional fiscal year 1997 funds in half, which would have forced 180,000 women, infants, and children to be kicked off of the nutrition program. I join a lot of my colleagues today in breathing a sigh of relief now, although we hear that WIC has been replaced by education cuts. Under their new proposals there are several red flags. Under this Republican proposal, 86,000 children will be cut from Head Start, 360,000 fewer students would be eligible for Pell grants for college or job training, and nearly 500,000 fewer children would have teachers to help them with basic math and reading skills. Congress has enacted a safeguard for our country's pregnant women and infants and children by not removing them from the WIC rolls. Now let us make sure they can also educate our children. Let us not only feed our children, but let us educate them.”