[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23285]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans' misplaced budget 
priorities are actually shameful. They continue to be a reverse Robin 
Hood, slashing funds to safety net programs only to give more tax cuts 
to the wealthiest of Americans.
  The budget reconciliation that we will talk about next week or the 
next week, whenever you guys can get your stuff together, proposes huge 
cuts in important programs that the poor and the working poor depend on 
day in and day out, such as $15 billion in cuts in Medicaid programs; 
$12.5 billion for student loans; and almost $1 billion in cuts for food 
stamps. All of this while, and you would allow the richer to get even 
richer at the expense of helping those who need it the most, doing 
nothing to offset Katrina expenses or to reduce our Nation's deficit.
  Using Hurricane Katrina as an excuse to extend tax cuts, while taking 
from the programs that the victims of the hurricane need most, is an 
embarrassment. I hope you will fix it.

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