On the recordOctober 4, 2013
Today's consideration of H.J. Res. 75 is a sham, a masquerade, a charade, and it features this relentless drumbeat and parade of pretentious concern for suckling babes and lactating women. Who do you think you're fooling? You're not fooling the National WIC Association. After all, they have watched the Appropriations Committee of this majority vote out up to half a billion dollars in cuts in the WIC program for these 8.6 million suckling babes. And what of these lactating women? I breastfed my kids; and I tell you that when you cut $40 billion out of food stamps, women cannot produce milk because they won't have fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meats. And what about the siblings of these children--school-age children who are the 210,000 who rely on free lunch that this bill does not address? Madam Speaker, I would hope that we would not deny 859,000 children, elderly, and disabled. Enough of this carnival. Let's get off this merry-go-round and reject this chicanery.
