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For their programs will cut into the

science programs and research development in a very large way. The majority’s budget resolution ignores the reality of our global economy and makes

short-sighted cuts in critical areas.

From fiscal years 1996 to 2002, the

GOP would cut $5.5 billion from the

human space flight program. In fact, as

the budget resolution was unveiled last

week, it would almost double the cut

already proposed for NASA. It would

take $4.9 billion from space and aeronautics and technology research, and

more than $1 billion from academic research infrastructure, like computer

networking. The GOP budget would

also cut several items of medical research.

Let me cite for you an interesting

point that I have just learned, and I

think it is an important point to acknowledge. As we provide health care

dollars and we pay for our health

needs, none of those dollars go for medical research. We see the tragedy that

is going on with the virus in Zaire, and

the inability to detect how to cure it.

Medical research saves money. Medical

research creates an opportunity to cure

illnesses, and yet medical research is

funded predominantly by Federal

funds, and if we were to cut medical research, then we dictate for this Nation

and for this world, and we submit them

or submit all of us to the inability to

find cures for illnesses or to improve

the health condition of the Nation.

Medical research is important. Part

of the budget cut and the budget resolution will negatively impact on medical research. And so it confuses me

that this budget resolution seems to

strike a chord of disharmony.

It pitches itself to a small 3 percent

or more of the Nation, and it does not

set a vision for moving us into the 21st

century. That is why without consultation with local government, you can

find some $6.5 billion being cut from

the Community Development Block

Grant, some $868 million being cut

from the community development financial institutions, employment

training, employment and training and

social services. You are cutting Goals

2000 $2.8 billion, title I $5.1 billion. You

are cutting safe and drug free schools

$3.4 billion. You are cutting all of the

housing programs that would include

modernization of our public housing

units. You are cutting the new construction of public housing units some

$4 billion, eliminating construction of

new public housing units, $13.4 billion,

Legal Services Corporation, you are

cutting $2.5 billion, and with a great

emphasis on vocational training.

And so there is a mixed message

here. There is a message that we have

instructed and we have called upon

America to stand up on our feet, to

stop being dependent, to get off welfare, to stop the cycle of poverty, and

yet we do great damage to our science

and research. We do great damage to

our vocational training, our secondary

and primary education. We do great

damage to our opportunities for local

communities to go into their neighborhoods and provide economic and social

advancement through the Community

Development Block Grants. We take

away the incentive for drug free and violence free schools. We intrude into the

lives and the needs of our senior citizens and the physically challenged and

the disabled by cutting Medicaid and

Medicare, and then we want to carry

on the debate to suggest that it is the

other party that does not have a budget proposal and an answer.

Well, my cry and my call today is

that reasonably we must come together looking for a bipartisan approach to what is a bipartisan problem.

It is America’s problem, and that is to

acknowledge that we have a deficit.

Yet I would say in acknowledging

that we have a deficit, truly we should

acknowledge that we cannot break

that deficit on the backs of those who

are trying to stand up, and clearly I

think the point should be made that if

this budget is to represent a vision of a

people, then in a bipartisan way those

cuts must be spread evenly to provide

the incentives for young people to go

to college, to provide the incentive for

businesses to grow and develop and certainly to be able to provide for those in

their older years. The opposite of that

is to ensure that working families will

be able to face every day the question

of how I will take care of my elderly

parent. They will have to face every

day the idea that their young person in

their home, although they may have

had a job during the summer, while

they were in high school, they may

have the potential for going to college,

but with no work study, no grants, no

loans, they just might not get there. I

would like you to think what we would

face if that was the case.

There is a time now for this to end,

not so much in the resounding debate,

but in solution, and that solution has

to be do not hurt the State of Texas. It

has to be do not hurt the many cities

and towns and rural communities

around this Nation. Let us put forth

the budget resolution that clearly answers the needs of all people, answers

the vision of this country, and that is

that we can make a difference, cut the

deficit, but be proud of the asset that

we have in this Nation, and that asset

is an investment in human capital.

By unanimous consent, leave of abLEAVE OF ABSENCE

fsence was granted to:

Mr. ROGERS (at the request of Mr.

ARMEY), until 12 noon today, on account of a death in the family.

Mr. KLECZKA (at the request of Mr.

GEPHARDT), for today and the balance

of the week, on account of medical reasons.

Mr. LIPINSKI (at the request of Mr.

GEPHARDT), for today, on account of

family illness.

By unanimous consent, permission to

SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED

faddress the House, following the legislative program and any special orders

heretofore entered, was granted to:

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. WYNN) to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material:)

Mr. LIPINSKI, for 5 minutes, today.

Ms. KAPTUR, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. WISE, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. MILLER of California, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. WARD, for 5 minutes, today.

Mr. DEFAZIO, for 5 minutes, today.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. WALKER) to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material:)

Mr. HORN, for 5 minutes today, and

May 17 and 18.

Mr. BURTON of Indiana, for 5 minutes,

on May 17.

Mr. DIAZ-BALART, for 5 minutes, on

May 17.

Mr. MARTINEZ, for 5 minutes, on May

17 and 18.

By unanimous consent, permission to

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

frevise and extend remarks was granted

to:

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. WYNN) and to include extraneous matter:)

Mr. OBERSTAR.

Mr. BORSKI.

Ms. NORTON.

Mr. RICHARDSON.

Mr. BONIOR.

Mr. LEVIN in three instances.

Mr. DELLUMS.

Mr. MOAKLEY.

Mr. STARK.

(The following Members (at the request of Mr. WALKER) and to include

extraneous matter:)

Mr. CUNNINGHAM.

Mr. SOLOMON.

Mr. WELDON of Florida.

Mr. RIGGS.

Mr. METCALF.

Mrs. JOHNSON of Connecticut.

Mr. WICKER.

Mrs. MORELLA.

Mr. COMBEST.

Mr. MOORHEAD.

Mr. SHAW.

Mr. YOUNG of Alaska.

Mr. PORTMAN.

Mr. FIELDS of Texas.

Mr. BLILEY.

Mr. EMERSON.

(The following Members (at the request of Ms. JACKSON-LEE) and to include extraneous matter:)

Mr. BENTSEN.

Mr. LATOURETTE.

Ms. VELA ́ ZQUEZ.

Mr. PASTOR.

Mr. BUYER.

Mr. ENGEL in two instances.

Mrs. LINCOLN

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ADJOURNMENT

Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, I

move that the House do now adjourn.