[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 48 (Thursday, March 22, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CHARLES DARWIN WOULD BLUSH

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Madam Speaker, yesterday by one vote the 
Republican Budget Committee passed a fend-for-yourself budget that 
gives Darwinism a bad name. It breaks a bipartisan compromise not even 
a year old. It voucherizes Medicare, in effect jeopardizing health care 
for tens of millions of American seniors. It essentially guts Medicaid 
and jeopardizes nursing home care for millions more. It block-grants 
the safety net programs led by food stamps, threatening to reverse 
decades-old progress in lowering poverty and malnutrition rates in 
America.
  This is a budget that needs to be rejected, Madam Speaker. It is a 
budget that would make Charles Darwin blush.

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