[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 28 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H1271-H1272]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, on every issue our Nation faces it is our 
responsibility to ensure that the policies we pursue are consistent 
with the values that we cherish. The Bush Administration's 2006 budget 
fails in every respect. It is fiscally reckless, adding trillions of 
dollars to the deficit over the next 10 years.
  It is morally irresponsible in funding for key homeland security, 
veterans benefits, health care and educational programs. And despite 
the fact that the President has called privatizing Social Security his 
top domestic priority this year, his budget includes no details on this 
plan.
  Mr. Speaker, this money that it is going to take to institute his 
plan

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could be money going to education, going to health care, going to 
address the infrastructure of our Nation.
  So the President's plan clearly needs help. And his failure to 
provide a clear and honest accounting of the difficult tradeoffs 
between increases in debt, benefits cuts and tax increases shows a 
failure in leadership.

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