Providing for Consideration of S. 3307, Healthy, Hunger-free Kids Act of 2010

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Mrs. CAPITO. Mr. Speaker, I would like to say that I applaud the first lady, Michelle Obama, for her efforts in childhood obesity. I hail from the State of West Virginia, which has probably some of the highest percentages of childhood obesity; and I think the issue in the underlying bill is tremendously important for our Nation and for the future, as is the nutritional aspects of that.

And as the gentleman from Florida said, I'm going to talk on the YouCut because I believe cutting spending and not passing on generational debt to those same children is an important issue as well.

Over the last few months, millions of Americans have used YouCut as a way to voice their concerns over the out-of-control spending in Washington, and many have offered their own solutions on how the government can be more efficient and more accountable. Unfortunately, most of these have fallen on deaf ears as the Congress has voted repeatedly not to try to rein in the spending of taxpayer dollars, and we simply cannot continue down this path. Each week we have brought a simple, yet effective way to cut spending before the House, and it has failed every time.

So today I will support eliminating the requirement to print copies of every single bill and resolution--imagine how many pages that is--that's been introduced in Congress because all of these are already available online.

I want to congratulate Mr. Lee of New York for bringing forth this proposal. This will save millions of dollars over the next decade--a small number in the grand scheme of things--but nevertheless a significant start.

There is no question that cutting the deficit will require some tough decisions on our part, but let's start out now on one which everyone can agree, and I think this should be one of them.

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