[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 18, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3533]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                TAX CUTS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, the President's budget cuts taxes for 95 
percent of America's workers and their families. It cuts spending, 
nondefense discretionary, over 10 years to its lowest level as a 
percentage of the economy in nearly half a century. The President's 
budget also cuts the deficit in half over 4 years. It grows nothing but 
jobs. And creating American jobs means making quality health care 
affordable. It means powering our economy with clean American energy. 
And it means modernizing our education system.
  Mr. Speaker, we have had 8 years of slow growth and actually a loss 
of jobs under President Bush, under the previous administration. The 
failure to reform and invest produced those 8 years of slow growth and 
loss of jobs. We need to turn that around, and that's what President 
Obama's budget will do.

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