[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25301]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE RIGHT RECONCILIATION FOR AMERICA

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Republicans hope to jam through a reconciliation the day 
before Veterans' Day, including $54 billion in cuts. He talked about a 
helping hand? Doubling the origination fee for student loans, cutting 
$14 billion in student loans is a helping hand for the next generation 
of Americans? Cutting foster care, school lunches, Medicaid, not to 
reduce the budget deficit but to make room for $70 billion of tax cuts 
for people who earn over $300,000 a year. That is what they are doing.
  We should reconcile a few things around here. Let us reconcile their 
hypocrisy. Let us reconcile their purported support for the troops and 
our vets with the fact that the budget is inadequate to provide 
promised benefits, and they are doing nothing about that in the budget 
reconciliation.
  Let's have some reconciliation and do things that are right for 
America.

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