[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6172]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           A CLEAR, VISIONARY BLUEPRINT FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, last Thursday, we were given the 
most honest, visionary and fair budget that we have gotten in 8 years. 
It includes the cost of the wars and the cost of patching the 
Alternative Minimum Tax which the Bush budgets were never willing to 
do. It invests in an education and energy future that will sustain a 
strong prosperous economy. And the fact is that it is fair.
  Now, that's going to be the talking point, that it does allow taxes 
to be restored on those who have seen the highest income growth over 
the last 8 years, the wealthiest 2 percent of our society. This issue 
has historically been a defining feature of America, that people who 
benefit the most from our economic prosperity should pay for the cost 
of the military that defends that wealth, should pay for the cost of 
the roads and the rails that transport that wealth, and, in fact, 
should pay for the cost of educating the workforce that produces that 
wealth.
  This budget, for the first time in 8 years, is not dead on arrival. 
This is a clear visionary blueprint for America's future, and we should 
support it.

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