[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 37 (Thursday, March 14, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H1405]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            THE RYAN BUDGET

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, the Republican budget, sometimes called 
the ``Ryan budget,'' also called the ``path to prosperity,'' is really 
more of the same, more of the same that we've seen for the past 3 
years. The only difference is it's worse. The budget is supposed to be 
the blueprint and is supposed to set forth the philosophy and the 
policy of the majority; but look at some of the problems. There are 
many of them, but let's concentrate on seniors. Let's see how it 
affects them.
  The voucher is back. It means Medicare costs are going to rise. There 
is no closing of the doughnut hole anymore for your prescription drugs 
because ObamaCare is repealed, and we're going to lose $810 billion in 
Medicaid, which is a cut of one-third, two-thirds of which go to the 
disabled and seniors. The irony is that the majority says it repeals 
ObamaCare; yet it keeps $716 billion in Medicare savings and all 
revenues from ObamaCare for a total of $1 trillion. So $2 trillion of 
its balancing the so-called budget is on the backs of ObamaCare--the 
ObamaCare that it says it repeals.
  This cannot be what this body wants to be identified with--a path to 
nowhere.

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