[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STATE OF THE UNION

  (Mr. ROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSS. Madam Speaker, for the first time in about 50 years, the 
Republicans control the White House, the House, and the Senate. So let 
us look at the real state of the union and what they have given us:
  $8 trillion in debt. In fact, this Nation is borrowing $907 million a 
day, $188 million a day going to Iraq, $33 million a day going to 
Afghanistan. In fact, this President and this Republican Congress have 
borrowed more money from foreigners in the past 5 years than the 
previous 42 Presidents combined. And all this before the hurricane 
season. Now they are proposing in tomorrow's budget reconciliation 
cutting Medicaid $12 billion, cutting food stamps and farm programs 
$3.7 billion, cutting student loans $14.3 billion. And for what? To pay 
for another $70 billion in tax cuts for those earning over $400,000 a 
year.
  Madam Speaker, these are not my priorities. These are not America's 
priorities. These are not the kinds of conservative, small-town values 
that I was raised on and still believe in.

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