[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 26554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           RECLAIMING AMERICA

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, the budget bill attacks students and low-
income and middle class families. It targets low and moderate income 
Americans with $70 billion in new tax cuts that will be included in the 
budget, and those tax cuts favor the super rich.
  The tax cuts for the rich are placed on the backs of students and 
their families. Under this bill, student borrowers, already saddled 
with $17,500 in debt, could be forced to pay up to an additional $1,500 
for his or her college loans. The bill raises student loan interest 
rate caps, raises borrower interest rates and fees for consolidation 
loans, and raises student loan taxes, and puts billions of dollars in 
student aid at risk by cutting all the critical funds used to carry out 
and administer student aid programs.
  So we have more and more young Americans who will not be getting a 
college education, but they will be getting a political education. If 
you do not vote, the politicians in Washington will ignore you, shove 
you aside, cut your education funds. It is a call to young Americans to 
get involved, register, vote, and reclaim this country.

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