[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE DEMOCRATIC BUDGET

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. George Bush and the Republicans have spent our country 
to the verge of bankruptcy. They have doubled our foreign debt. They 
have increased our national debt by 60 percent. George Bush has 
accumulated more debt than every President who preceded him in the 
United States of America and they have done it on the credit card.
  And guess who is going to get the bill in their world after they 
eliminate taxes for the wealthy? It's going to be the middle class, and 
they're going to get hit twice. They're going to get the bill, and 
their kids and grandkids are going to get the bill. And the programs 
that middle-income Americans need like tuition assistance for their 
kids to go to college, the Bushies cut those. That's their sense of 
fiscal responsibility.
  The other side over here, the gentleman from North Carolina is 
saying, oh, the largest tax increase in history.
  No. We're allowing the tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, people 
who earn over $250,000 a year, people who have estates worth more than 
$5 million, we're asking that once again they pay their fair share. 
There will not be a penny increase on middle-income families. They can 
make up anything they want, but it's not true.
  But, yes, the wealthy would pay a little bit more. That's why they're 
squealing so much, because the Republicans get their money from the 
wealthy to try and maintain control of our country.

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