[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25562]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Madam Speaker, the Republican fiscal mismanagement is 
so bad, and their budget proposals so dreadful, that even the 
Republican Caucus is having difficulty swallowing it. Mainstream 
Republicans do not agree with K Street Republicans, who do not agree 
with Wall Street Republicans; but they are hopelessly out of touch with 
the street where most Americans live.
  The Republican Congress seeks to mask their fiscal irresponsibility 
with cuts for millions of poor, the sick, for students and their 
families, literally taking food from the mouths of poor children to pay 
for more tax cuts for people who need them the least.
  There is much talk of scandal here in Washington D.C., but to have a 
proposal offered up that would actually increase the deficit more than 
if they just gave up and went home is a scandal. It is a scandal how 
tragically out of touch my Republican colleagues are from the needs and 
desires of the average American.

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