[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25702]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        STANDING UP FOR AMERICA

  (Mr. SCOTT of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCOTT of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, who is telling the truth? The 
Democrats are telling the truth on this. This is smoke and mirrors, and 
the Republicans are offering a budget reconciliation package that is 
definitely harmful to the American people.
  We can do better, this Congress deserves to do better, and the 
American people are expecting us to do better.
  Here is the truth: the truth is that this is not deficit reduction. 
It will add a total of $16 billion to our deficit. Here are the facts: 
The cuts are $54 billion. Yet there is a tax cut in here for $70 
billion. Separate it, the math is there: 54 from 70 is 16. It adds $16 
billion just in adding the tax cuts to it.
  I tell my colleagues, there was a young fellow named David who came 
from the sheep and they told him to go back and mind his sheep, and he 
was to go get Goliath. David looked at him and said, Is there not a 
cause?
  Well, I am here to tell my colleagues there is a cause for you and a 
cause for me, and that cause is to stand up for Americans, stand up for 
the American people. We can do better. Let us vote down this awful 
budget reconciliation.

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