[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18328-18329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             BUSH PROPOSALS

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are at it again. President Bush 
yesterday attacked Senator Kerry's budget plan; yet President Bush has 
presided over the biggest budget deficit in our Nation's history.
  Now it appears all the domestic proposals President Bush listed off 
during his convention acceptance speech will cost $3 trillion over 10 
years. That is at least $1 trillion more than the initiatives that 
Senator Kerry has proposed.
  And despite this huge price tag, President Bush continues to deceive 
the American people by telling them that this can all be done without 
raising taxes on one single American. Over

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the past 4 years, we have gone from record surpluses to record 
deficits. It is because we have a man in the White House and leaders 
here in Congress who simply cannot balance a checkbook.
  It is time for the President to level with the American people. He 
simply cannot afford all these new proposals without either raising 
taxes or increasing the deficit even more.

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