[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25700]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BUDGET RECONCILIATION

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow we will honor our 
Nation's veterans. But the budget reconciliation legislation that we 
present today will not honor our veterans, because their families will 
be impacted by the negative aspects of this legislation.
  $11.9 billion in cuts in Medicaid will impact the families of 
veterans. $50 billion cuts in Medicaid over 10 years will impact the 
families of veterans. $14.3 billion in student loan cuts will impact 
the children of veterans. And those National Guard and Reservists who 
came home after battling in Iraq to Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and 
Louisiana will find that $7 billion has been cut from the most 
vulnerable, and their homes that have been destroyed will be impacted 
by this budget because there will be no money at the end to be able to 
provide for the restoration of their lives.
  This budget reconciliation legislation will not honor our veterans. 
We honor them tomorrow. Why do we not honor them today? We can do 
better.

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