[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 22 (Friday, February 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. SCOTT of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, last year we passed a 2-year 
$850 billion tax cut bill with the benefits skewed toward millionaires; 
$24 billion of that was a bonus reduction in taxes on estates of 
multimillionaires over and above the generous reduction that most had 
expected. When the bill passed, many of us asked how we were going to 
pay for it. Well, now we know.
  This week, the Republican majority released a list of spending cuts, 
and look how we are going to pay for it: cuts in heating assistance for 
low income families, job training programs, National Institute for 
Health, NASA research, community health centers, and women, infant and 
children's nutrition programs.
  Madam Speaker, the worst part is that the savings from the 70 
programs slated to be cut only total $23 billion, less than the cost of 
the bonus estate tax changes for dead multimillionaires, a long way 
from the $100 billion demanded by the tea party, nowhere close to 
paying the $850 billion tax cut bill, and it doesn't fix the long-term 
structural imbalance in the Federal budget. Madam Speaker, that's not 
right.

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