[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 926]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                      A PLAN FOR DEFICIT REDUCTION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, just a few minutes ago, this 
House voted to eliminate one of the anchors of democracy: allowing 
Americans to check off on their IRS filing form $3--just $3--to promote 
and support the democratic process of electing the President of the 
United States, all in the name of deficit reduction.
  But deficit reduction doesn't work without a plan. It doesn't work 
without thinking about the many State Departments of Transportation 
that can no longer fix the highways and freeways in your community; or 
that can promote rail mobility in order to take cars off the road; or 
that can, in fact, keep the doors of community colleges open; or that 
can support primary education while State legislatures are struggling 
to find resources to provide for teachers and students.
  So let me say this: I want to work with you on deficit reduction. In 
fact, I've done it before but not without a plan. I believe that 
investing in the infrastructure of America is a plan that will allow 
jobs to be created. That's the serious way of dealing with moving 
America forward and allowing for the genius of America--having a plan 
that responds to building America and not making false projections 
about saving money.

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