[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, this week we were to take up 
the Republican leadership budget bill that would have cut student 
loans, rural and agricultural programs, LIHEAP low energy assistance 
programs, and other major programs in our Federal budget that the 
American people depend on. I am happy to report at this moment they 
have postponed that legislation just for today.
  We want Americans all over to speak up and to contact your 
Congresspeople. This is not the time to cut vital human family programs 
like student aid, like rural and agricultural development, like food 
stamps, and like low energy assistance programs. Do we have problems in 
America? Yes, we do. But we hope our Republican leadership will not 
bring a budget resolution forward that will further decimate and hurt 
families. At a time when many manufacturing jobs have been lost in 
America, in my own State of Michigan, the highest unemployment State in 
the country, this is not the time to cut vital programs. It is time, 
though, not to have a $1.7 trillion cost for a tax cut for the 
wealthiest of Americans.
  Speak up, America. Let your voice be heard.

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