[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 18, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H1733]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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REJECT HOUSE REPUBLICAN BUDGET
(Mr. JEFFRIES asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. JEFFRIES. Mr. Speaker, congressional Democrats are trying to move
the country forward, but the House Republican budget is designed to
turn back the clock.
Instead of trying to take a balanced approach to dealing with our
Nation's fiscal problems, the House Republican budget seeks to balance
itself on the backs of working families, middle class folks, senior
citizens, young Americans, college students, the poor, the sick, and
the afflicted. Instead of trying to promote progress for everyone, the
House Republican budget seeks to enact policies designed to simply
benefit the privileged few.
It is a regressive, a retrograde, and an irresponsible Republican
budget, and it should be soundly rejected. It does not add a single
middle class job. It does not increase a single middle class paycheck.
It does not help a single middle class family send its child to
college. Mr. Speaker, I am urging that the House soundly reject this
reckless Republican budget.
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