[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WORRYING ABOUT THE REST OF AMERICA

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, that was an interesting speech, but it 
defies reality. If the government eliminated every general fund 
program, everything the government does except the Department of 
Defense, guess what? We would still have a deficit. We would still be 
borrowing money.
  The Republicans are borrowing $1.2 billion a day to run the 
government, and now they are the party of fiscal responsibility, and, 
oh, it is those poor working people they are concerned about. Except 
what they do not talk about is the tax cuts they are talking about, the 
ones that would cost $70 billion and increase the deficit, flow 
predominantly to people who earn over $300,000 a year, mostly over $1 
million a year, and to estates worth more than $6 million. That is the 
hard-working families they are worried about, one-tenth of 1 percent of 
the people in America.
  Well, I am worried about the rest of America who are getting screwed 
by these kinds of priorities.

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