SC Yellow Dogs

WASHINGTON, DC-After attacks on an educational and recreational program for the children of military families, Majority Whip Clyburn spoke out on the House floor to defend military families who are fighting to protect our way of life. House Republicans criticized $3 million in the Department of Defense Appropriations bill for the First Tee Life Skills program, a character-building program which benefits low-income and minority children. The funding would implement the First Tee Life Skills program at military facilities, giving the children of military families a constructive educational and recreational outlet. To view Clyburn’s speech visit www.majoritywhip.gov.

Highlights from Clyburn’s speech:

“Not one dime of this request will go to any civilian facility in South Carolina or anywhere else in the United States of America.

“Every single dime of this is to be spent on defense facilities to the benefit of those children whose mothers and fathers are off defending our way of life, so that their children can have the same kind of opportunities that our children have.

“And I find it a little bit insulting that we said we were going to reserve this kind of activity for the elite and not make it available to the children of the men and women who are preserving our way of life. We know who is fighting this war. Rural, low-income families are carrying the burden of this war.”