[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25567]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     REPUBLICAN RECONCILIATION BILL

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. The Republican reconciliation bill, pretending to 
finally bring a sense of fiscal responsibility to that side of the 
aisle, having increased our debt by 62 percent in 5 years, actually is 
bleeding middle-income families, kids who want to get a higher 
education, $14 billion out of student loans.
  Those youngsters in the elementary schools are eating too much. Cut 
student lunches for those kids. Foster care, the family values side, 
long-term care for seniors. Why are they cutting all that? So they can 
bleed the poor and the middle class in this country. And then as they 
create this giant sea of red ink, they will float the yachts of the 
wealthy on it by giving them $70 billion in tax breaks, actually 
increasing the deficit, having already stuck it to the middle class and 
struggling families.
  They are going to increase the deficit in order to finance tax cuts 
for people who earn over $300,000 a year so their yachts can be a 
little bigger and float a little higher. They should be ashamed of what 
they are doing to America and what they are doing to middle-income and 
struggling families.

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