[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 38 (Friday, March 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H1534-H1535]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HOUSE REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  (Ms. SEWELL of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak against the Ryan 
budget.
  Mr. Speaker, here we go again, another House Republican budget filled 
with the same gimmicks and fuzzy math that the American people soundly 
rejected last fall during the Presidential election. It's another 
budget that slashes critical economic investments, undermines job 
growth, and attempts to reduce the deficit on the backs of our seniors, 
disabled, women, and low-income families.

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  We cannot pass this budget, just like we could not pass it last year. 
It increases tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of 
the middle class. On average, $2,000 more in taxes will be charged to 
the middle class. This budget also does nothing to replace the 
arbitrary and irrational cuts of the sequester. As a result, 750,000 
jobs will be lost this year alone.
  The Republican budget would end Medicare as we know it and force 
Alabama seniors to pay more for health care. It will reopen the 
doughnut hole, and 48,264 Alabama seniors will have to pay more for 
prescription drugs. This budget also cuts $6.2 billion in health care.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve more. We can't allow our 
Republican leadership to continue to try to give tax breaks to the 
wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

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