[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8268]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 THE REPUBLICANS' BUDGET ON AFRICAN AMERICAN AND HISPANIC COMMUNITIES 
                              AND CHILDREN

  (Ms. LEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, the Democratic leadership just released two 
reports that make clear just how much damage the Republican budget will 
do to the African American and Hispanic communities, as well as to 
children.
  This budget fails to deliver $12 billion in proposed funding for 
education. If the President really meant that no child would be left 
behind, why are 3 million children not getting the help in reading and 
math that they deserve?
  The budget fails to make health care accessible. With more than 20 
million African Americans and Hispanics without health insurance, the 
Bush budget offers health care cuts that will increase the number of 
the uninsured.
  President Bush claimed that his Social Security privatization plan 
would benefit African Americans because we have shorter life 
expectancies. The budget makes it clear that the President would rather 
exploit this issue to sell his privatization scheme than do something 
to help African Americans live longer.
  This budget creates deficits, not jobs, and it favors tax cuts for 
the rich over making the American dream more accessible to all. Every 
American deserves better.

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