[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 31, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H4139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            OUR BUDGET VOTE

  (Mr. CLEAVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, President Barack Obama assumed the 
presidency with the United States in a condition worse than any 
President in the history of our Republic. He came in with problems on 
every single front, not the least of which was our budget.
  I am very pleased to be supporting the President's budget. It 
includes over $2 trillion worth of budget savings through ending what 
at one point cost us more than $10 billion a month, which was the war 
in Iraq; we are ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship their 
jobs overseas; and, asking those who make more than $250,000 a year and 
have had huge tax cuts over the past 8 years to pay just a little bit 
more.
  This budget cuts taxes for 95 percent of American workers, it cuts 
the deficit in half in over 4 years, and ends an era of 
irresponsibility and budget gimmicks. So I am proud, Mr. Speaker, to 
support the President's budget.

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