[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15110-15111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                URGING CUTS IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAMS

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MARKEY. The ``Occupy Wall Street'' protests have spread from New

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York to cities across America. As the protests expand, people are 
asking, Why? Why are thousands of Americans in the streets? Because 
Americans are fed up.
  Ninety-nine percent of the people are 100 percent fed up. They are 
fed up with a system that puts profit over people, that rewards the 
rich at the expense of everyone else. Let me give you an example:
  The government plans to spend $700 billion on new nuclear weapons 
systems over the next 10 years, even as it's proposing to cut research 
for Alzheimer's, for cancer research, for a diabetes cure, to take care 
of Medicare and Medicaid patients across our country.
  The American people are not afraid that their family is going to get 
killed by a new nuclear weapon. They're afraid that the killing that 
comes into their life comes from the terrorist that is the phone call 
from a doctor in the middle of the night that another member of their 
family has cancer, has diabetes, has Alzheimer's, has Parkinson's.
  That's the priority that we have to establish for our country. That's 
why 65 of my colleagues are going to introduce this effort to cut $200 
billion out of the nuclear weapons program over the next 10 years.

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