[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25299]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         IN OPPOSITION TO THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET RECONCILIATION

  (Mr. GRIJALVA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the 
Republican budget reconciliation. I believe this process has nothing to 
do with reconciliation. Instead, we have an ideological devastation of 
the future of families, children, students, the poor, and the elderly 
in this country.
  It would look at these cuts: education, $14 billion; nutrition, $844 
million in food stamp cuts; Medicaid, $10 billion; veterans, not 
addressing the real needs of veterans in this country; foster care, 
$577 million; SSI and TANF, $8 billion; child support, $5 billion.
  These cuts that are being asked for by the Republicans in the 
reconciliation are a direct result of their policies, policies that are 
giving tax breaks to corporations, tax cuts to the very wealthy, a $1-
billion-a-day war, and a borrow-and-spend fiscal policy that the 
Republican Party has instituted.
  The backbone of this Nation is its families. The door of opportunity 
has to remain open for all families. There is always room at the inn.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on the reconciliation.

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