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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dave rose who wrote (134348)	3/31/2001 4:25:04 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush on Budget: Do it for the Kids Saturday, March 31, 2001 WASHINGTON — President Bush is offering a new reason to support his budget and tax-cut plan: Do it for the children. Bush devoted his weekly radio address Saturday to emphasizing the initiatives his budget provides to improve "the education, health and character of American children." "My budget spends additional money on these goals and spends it in effective, creative ways," he asserted. The president is making children and their needs the focus of the coming week. On Tuesday, he will participate in a round-table discussion at a Boys and Girls Club in Wilmington, Del. On Wednesday, he is scheduled to welcome to the White House members of the Children's Miracle Network, which raises money for pediatric hospitals. In the radio address, Bush laid out these budget priorities: •Place a new emphasis on the teaching of reading, with the goal of helping all children read by the third grade. He said his plan, ``Reading First,'' would triple the available money to improve and expand reading programs. •Increase federal money for Head Start while focusing the popular program on preparing ``our nation's most disadvantaged children to learn as soon as they enter school.'' •Spend more than $1 billion, a 12 percent increase from this year, on research on childhood diseases at the National Institutes for Health. •Finance the operations of 1,200 new community health centers ``to bring better care to poor children.'' •Add $94 million to the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, with the aim of helping more than 7 million people next year. Increase by $22 million the money available for the childhood immunization program operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites). •Increase spending on child care programs by $350 million to include an additional 500,000 children. •Provide $200 million for services aimed at preventing child abuse and keeping families together. Make available $60 million to help children being raised in foster care pay the costs of college or vocational training. •Establish a new $67 million program to ``make grants to faith-based and community organizations who mentor the children of parents in prison.'' "This is a long list, but I wanted to make a point," Bush said. "My budget is active and compassionate. Discretionary spending grows by a healthy, responsible 4 percent, enough to meet our needs." As he has repeatedly in the last two months, the president asserted that after paying for his spending priorities and retiring some of the national debt, "we then have enough money to provide broad tax relief." He is seeking $1.6 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade. My budget has the right balance," Bush said as he again asked Americans to "encourage your representatives in Congress to support my budget." foxnews.com