[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 71 (Thursday, June 4, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4065-H4066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET SHOWS THE GOP'S TRUE COLORS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)

[[Page H4066]]

  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, if anyone out there was worried that the 
Republican leadership of the House was straying from their extremist 
agenda, fear not, because the budget resolution coming to the House 
floor today is as extreme as they come.
  First and foremost, the Republican budget resolution fails to protect 
Social Security, but it does not stop there. The budget resolution also 
cuts funding to educate our children, protect our environment, and 
provide adequate health care for working American families.
  What is really upsetting about this Republican budget resolution is 
that these extreme cuts are not done in the name of fiscal 
responsibility or debt reduction. No, instead what Speaker Gingrich and 
the Republican leadership want to do is provide more tax breaks for the 
wealthy at the expense of American seniors, kids and working families.
  The Republican budget resolution clearly demonstrates that the 
Speaker's priorities lay somewhere beyond the American working family. 
The Republican leadership has not learned any lessons since 1995, and 
we will see today that the Speaker will not even get the support of 
many of his own House Republicans, much less the American people.

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