[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 108 (Tuesday, July 19, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H5168-H5169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         RYAN BUDGET WITH LIPSTICK IS COMING TO THE HOUSE TODAY

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Cut, Cap, and Balance is not a jobs bill; 
it's a job-killing bill. It's a new way of trying to

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ramrod the Ryan budget proposal down our throats. It's the Ryan budget 
with lipstick, and it's really just slash-and-burn politics with a new 
face.
  Today, the Republicans will vote unanimously for this draconian 
slash-and-burn Ryan budget plan that they now call ``Cut, Cap, and 
Balance.'' For the third time, the Republicans will vote unanimously to 
cut Medicare and change Social Security to a voucher program that puts 
our seniors at the mercy of the for-profit insurance companies. And 
that's real.
  We need jobs and economic growth, not cut, cap and balance, which is, 
again, just slash-and-burn politics, the Ryan budget proposal with 
lipstick. And that's the real deal. That's realer than ``Real Deal 
Holyfield.''

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