[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24749]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      REPUBLICAN BUDGET PRIORITIES

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Well, the government is in a fiscal crisis. We are 
borrowing $1.2 billion a day to run the government under the Bush 
administration and the Republican leadership. They have raised the 
national debt to $8 trillion in 5 short years, but now they are newly 
born as fiscal conservatives, and they want to cut $50 billion.
  From where? Student loans, the school lunch and breakfast programs, 
those kids are eating too much, foster care and child support 
enforcement to help the deadbeat dads. They will, unfortunately, more 
than overspend their cuts to those struggling people and those good 
programs. They want $70 billion of tax cuts, $20 billion more added to 
the sea of red ink that is drowning America in tax cuts for, guess who, 
the wealthy because trickle-down is the highest form of achievement in 
Washington, D.C. these days. They want to bleed struggling Americans to 
float the yachts of the wealthy on a sea of red ink one more time while 
lying about what they are doing.

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