[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26262]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  STANDING UP FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (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, I rise this morning to speak on 
behalf of the American people. The American people want us to stand up 
and fight these dastardly budget cuts to the needy at a time when this 
country is in such great pain. We have just gone through the visceral 
attacks of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. The American people are 
suffering. They are hurting. At the very same time that we are hurting 
and suffering the most, this Republican-led Congress and the President 
of the United States want to put forward budget cuts that would hurt 
them the most.
  Let me tell you about them: $12 billion in Medicaid cuts at a time 
when 45 million Americans do not even have health insurance, and $850 
million cuts in the food stamp program when 2 million people, according 
to the Agriculture Department, were just added to the hungry rolls.
  This is the wrong time to do these cuts. These cuts are made to 
offset a $70 billion tax cut for billionaires and millionaires who do 
not even need the money; and in order to even pay that money, we have 
to go and borrow it from Communist China.
  The American people deserve better, we can do better, and we must do 
better. Let's vote down these cuts and stand up for the American 
people.

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