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“IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR WIC” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H2098 on May 1, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR WIC
(Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to a letter printed in this morning's New York Times by my friend and my colleague from the other side of the aisle, the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston]. The gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston] writes that the President's request for $76 million in funds for the women, infants and children program is based on old census data.
The statement is simply inaccurate. The $76 million figure is based on numbers submitted from the States to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in early April of this year. These are not House Member numbers. These are not administration numbers. These are the numbers from the united States in this country. These numbers are in fact only a few weeks old. More importantly, these figures indicate that without the full $76 million requested by the President, 360,000 women and children will be removed from the WIC Program.
Does the majority party really want to take milk, cereal, and formula off the breakfast tables of thousands of needy families? I do not think so.
Democrats are united in our opposition to the WIC reductions. I urge my Republican colleagues to join us in voting to restore the full amount of the President's request for WIC.
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