[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 13, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H1902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MAJORITY AGENDA UNFAIR AND UNAMERICAN

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, the House majority today is 
about to increase our deficit by $290 billion. We are going to offer an 
alternative; but they will reject that alternative so that they can 
take care of three-tenths of 1 percent of the very wealthiest people in 
this country. For the difference in cost, you could restore food stamps 
to 300,000 families; you could restore medical care to the 7 million 
poor elderly people in the nursing homes that you just cut from the 
Medicaid program; you could restore 300,000 day care slots for poor 
children.
  These are people who suffer from the accident of birth and, in many 
cases, only because of the accident of birth; in order to reward a 
handful of families who are advantaged by the accident of birth, who 
have the very best education, the very best contacts, the very best 
prospects for economic success, and yet we will take billions, tens of 
billions, hundreds of billions of dollars out of Federal revenue to 
reward that three-tenths of 1 percent. That is unfair, and it is un-
American. This was envisioned as a Nation of equal opportunity, not one 
of inherited aristocracy.

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