Political Quotes

“Mr. President, my message today is very simple--my concern is that the nutrition cuts in the reconciliation bill are going to make children go hungry if they are allowed to stay as they are. At the beginning of this Congress, I attacked some of those people with the Contract With America crowd because they wanted to repeal the School Lunch Act, at that time in the name of balancing the budget. I also attacked them because they wanted to repeal the school breakfast program and then they wanted to repeal the summer food service program. I am not sure why they did that, but it was interesting to see how the American public reacted. They reacted with outrage. Now I am afraid that the same American public is being fooled, because these nutrition cuts are now being made in a reconciliation bill. The same nutrition cuts that could not be made frontally are going to be made indirectly in the reconciliation bill. It appears to me that the Contract With America crowd has totally abandoned its effort to balance the budget. Now they will settle for just taking food from children.”