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unaffordable that even a Republican

Senate rejected it.

This is a picture of Shawn D’Abreu, a

student at Webster University in St.

Louis. He depends on student loans, as

well as college grants and a part-time

job, to pay his way through college. To

lose any part of his financial aid package could put Shawn’s college career in

jeopardy, forcing him to delay his degree, or find some source of outside income to make up the difference.

Under the new Republican budget

plan, Shawn would have his student

loan cut by about $5,000. That is a cut

he simply cannot afford to sustain.

If you ask me, a budget that sacrifices Shawn’s college education to

line the pockets of the wealthy is a

dangerous reversal of priorities. The

Republicans want to let billionaires renounce their citizenship and pay no

taxes. But Shawn, who is the very future of this country, gets stuck with

the bill.

That is what the Republicans voted

for—tax cuts for the wealthy, and student loan cuts for struggling young

people like Shawn. If you ask me, the

Senate had it right: That kind of reckless redistribution of income is just

plain wrong, and has no place in the

United States of America.

HOUSE REPUBLICANS FAVOR

FISCAL SANITY

f(Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

his remarks.)

Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, once

again the distinguished minority leader has given us ample evidence as to

why my friends on the other side of the

aisle will remain in the minority. I am

sorry I did not blow up this picture as

did the distinguished minority leader,

but I have here a picture of my three

children.

My oldest daughter is Nicole. She is

preparing to go to Arizona State University and Nicole is very interested in

getting a student loan. But Nicole is

happy to step up and pay an extra 68

cents a day if it will help us restore fiscal sanity in this country.

To my friends on the other side of

the aisle, again I appeal to you, please

quit trying to play this baseless class

warfare game. Put your shoulder to the

wheel and help us govern, because this

is not about redistribution of wealth,

this is about saving a republic from fiscal disaster, and it is incumbent upon

all of us to answer this clarion call to

save this country, including students

willing to pay an additional 68 cents a

day because that is the average they

would pay in an increase on their student loan.

HEART SURGERY IN THE OTHER

fBODY

(Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute.)

Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, perhaps

my colleague from Arizona had best direct his remarks to his Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate. You see,

yesterday they did a little heart surgery over in the U.S. Senate. Yes, my

colleague from Texas, PHIL GRAMM,

said the heart, the very heart of this

budget resolution was a tax cut for the

privileged.

PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY

Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, I have a

parliamentary inquiry.

The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr.

BONILLA). The gentleman will state it.

Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, is it appropriate under the rules to address

specific actions taken in the other

body?

The SPEAKER pro tempore. The

Chair advises Members that they

should avoid references to Members of

the other body.

Mr. DOGGETT. Yesterday the U.S.

Senate chose to perform heart surgery.

Sixty-nine Members, including 23 Republicans in that body, decided to remove from the budget resolution any

tax cut for the privileged. That is good

news for Americans. We are still not

there. We still do not have a reasonable

budget resolution, but the fact that

that heart surgery occurred over there

in the Senate with joint bipartisan participation to add some reason to the

budget resolution speaks volumes for

Medicare recipients, speaks volumes

for young people in this country, certainly speaks to the needs of Tina Henderson and her daughter Erica in my

district who stand to lose substantially

on student loans and student assistance, if the budget resolution the

House passed is ever written into law.

CONGRESS ACTS TO OVERHAUL

FOREIGN AID POLICY

f(Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1

minute.)

Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, this week,

Congress has the opportunity to vote

on legislation which would put American interests first. The American

Overseas Interests Act overhauls our

Nation’s foreign aid policy to reflect

our foreign policy and national security interests in the 1990’s, not the

1950’s. It defends our national security

and supports our trade and economic

interests while balancing the budget

for our children’s future.

We draw a line between offering a

helping hand to countries which support us and countries who choose to

work against our interests. We send a

bold statement to our enemies by cutting off funds to countries that spy on

us, provide weapons to terrorist states

and consistently vote against us in the

United Nations.

Most importantly, it eliminates

three foreign policy agencies and cuts

foreign aid spending by nearly $1 billion. Finally, it sends a message to

neighbors around the world that we

know ‘‘we cannot buy friendship.’’

REPUBLICANS TO STUDENTS:

NEED HELP? FORGET IT

(Mr. GONZALEZ asked and was given

permission to address the House for 1

minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. GONZALEZ. Mr. Speaker, America is the place that invented mass education, and that is one thing that made

this the great country that it is.

For the past 50 years, great programs

like the GI bill and the Student Loan

Program have opened the doors of opportunity to generations of kids from

poor, struggling families. The strongest, richest, most progressive regions

in America are those regions where a

fine education is within the reach of

every worthy student, no matter how

poor that student might be.

One would think that with millions

of success stories, and one would think

that with all the lessons of history, the

Republicans would conclude that education ought to get a very high priority.

Nope. The Republicans want to strangle very form of student aid. They

want to add thousands of dollars to the

cost of student loans, and make deep

cuts in every other kind of student aid.

Hundreds of thousands of deserving

kids will find it impossible to afford a

good college education.

In my district alone there are almost 33,000

students who need student loans to make it

through school. Losing the interest rate benefit

will cost them millions of dollars. Since my district is among the Nation’s poorest, many of

those kids will lose their best chance for a decent life.

The Republican message to them is that

hard work and studious habits do not pay. The

Republican message to the 50 per cent of kids

who need help to go to college is forget it. As

a social policy it is tragic. As an economic policy, it is foolish. Our Government has assisted

education as a high priority since the Northwest Ordinance of 1789. George Washington

must be embarrassed to see the Republican

budget.

IN SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN

OVERSEAS INTERESTS ACT

f(Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was

given permission to address the House

for 1 minute and to revise and extend

her remarks.)

Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker,

the Committee on International Relations, under the excellent leadership of

our chairman, BEN GILMAN, has

brought to the floor a bill that combines wise policy guidance with sound

fiscal discipline.

The bill represents a substantial cutback in the level of discretionary

spending proposed by the administration in its 1996 budget request.

It is fair that the foreign affairs programs of this Government join with

the domestic programs in making the

sacrifices that are necessary to bring

our Federal budget into balance by the

year 2002.

It is the administration’s responsibility to manage the program entrusted