[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24898]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPUBLICAN BUDGET CUTS

  (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, I am appalled by the cruel and short-
sighted leadership the Republican Party is giving us in planning to ram 
through this reconciliation next week. They want to provide an 
additional $70 billion to $100 billion in tax cuts for the privileged 
and the powerful and their Fortune 500 corporate benefactors. In order 
to pay for this, they plan to cut $4.9 billion from child support 
programs that help collect money from deadbeat dads; $14.5 billion from 
student aid programs, $9.5 billion in Medicaid, and they even want to 
cut tens of millions of dollars from low-income energy assistance.
  Mr. Speaker, you will hear more from the Progressive Caucus, more 
from the Democratic Party next week about just how unfair these cuts 
will be to real moderate-income people and the very poor people in this 
country and how much they will benefit the very, very wealthy people in 
this country.

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