[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25021]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BUDGET RECONCILIATION

  (Mr. OLVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. OLVER. Mr. Speaker, the Budget Committee's reconciliation bill is 
a vicious example of misguided fiscal and social priorities. To pay for 
tax cuts that benefit almost exclusively those whose income is over 
$200,000 a year, the bill cuts assistance to families struggling to get 
by and pushes them right into poverty.
  The bill guarantees that more foster children will grow up in 
poverty. $4.9 billion is slashed from child support services. As a 
result, single mothers and their children will not receive the support 
payments owed to them, and many of those children will grow up in 
poverty.
  $844 million cut from food stamps will push another 300,000 children 
and adults in low-income and immigrant families below the poverty 
threshold. One in five children in this country already grow up in 
poverty. It is unconscionable to deliberately increase that number. For 
what? So that the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans can have another 
huge tax cut.

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