[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6318]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  DO NOT SUPPORT A BALANCED BUDGET THAT IS ANTIFAMILY AND ANTIELDERLY

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, tonight the Republicans will release the 
details of their budget, setting the stage for national debate on 
budget priorities. The top priority of their budget is a $245 billion 
tax cut to the wealthy, better known as the crown jewel. Yet the 
Republican leadership will tell the American people that this plan is 
fiscally responsible.
  Fiscally responsible? Where is the responsibility to working 
families? Is it responsible for Republicans to cut $11 billion from 
student loans for the middle class to help to pay for a tax break to 
the wealthy?
  Fiscally responsible? Where is the responsibility to our seniors? Is 
it responsible for Republicans to steal $270 billion from Medicare to 
finance a tax giveaway to their wealthiest friends?
  Seniors have every reason to be scared. Democrats support a balanced 
budget, but we will not support a plan that is antifamily and 
antielderly. We will not support a plan that asks the middle class 
working families to sacrifice not to balance the budget, but to pay for 
a tax cut for the privileged few.


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