[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11393]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            2006 BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, last week we learned from an internal Bush 
administration budget memo detailing their planned cuts.
  According to the budget document, education, transportation, Social 
Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science 
Foundation, and the Small Business Administration are all in line for 
drastic cuts in their budgets. Head Start, for example, a $177 million 
cut. The National Institutes of Health would be slashed by more than 
$600 million. The administration is planning cuts for 2006; and all the 
while, they are asking for an additional $25 billion to rebuild and 
secure Iraq. The additional $25 billion for Iraq is on top of the $165 
billion the American taxpayers have already allocated and paid.
  These reconstruction funds are building schools, roads, and 
encouraging business development in Iraq; and all the while, we are 
making corresponding cuts here at home. I understand that we need to 
rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, but not at the expense of what we do here 
in the United States.
  Mr. Speaker, when President Bush in 2000 declared his opposition to 
nation-building, who knew it was America he was talking about.

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