[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 9, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1628]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  (Mr. BACA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BACA. Mr. Speaker, as the recent job report shows, our economy is 
steadily improving with 12 straight months of private sector job 
growth.
  Now, I state, now is the time for us to build on this progress and 
work together in a bipartisan effort to create jobs, not reduce jobs. I 
state, not to reduce jobs.
  But, sadly, my Republican friends are letting the extremists dictate 
their agenda, protecting special interests at the expense of working 
families. The Republican budget would destroy 700,000 jobs and turn 
back the clock, I say, turn back the clock on our recent economic 
progress. This budget would do critical harm to American families. 
Mothers and children would be stripped of nutrition benefits from the 
WIC program. Thousands of youth would be kicked out of Head Start.
  And now the Republicans are ready to continue their assault on the 
middle class by terminating the mortgage relief program that keeps 
families in their homes.
  We should be helping families, not making them homeless. Let's work 
together to pass a budget that creates jobs and helps middle class 
Americans.

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