[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 3518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TWO WEEKS CONTINUING RESOLUTION

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                           HON. CORRINE BROWN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 8, 2011

  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, just last week, Congress passed a 
two-week Continuing Resolution to cut spending and keep the government 
running. Now, in all my years as an elected official I have never seen 
a CR (Continuing Resolution) last as little as two weeks!
  I clearly see that on Capitol Hill these days it is only the big dogs 
that get to eat at the table! The Republican Party, while slamming 
through tax cuts for the rich last December is leading the charge for 
tens of billions of dollars in budget cuts for job training programs, 
environmental protection, disease control, programs to assist homeless 
veterans; transportation and infrastructure (including cuts to high 
speed rail and Amtrak), crime protection, education programs and dozens 
of other critical Extension of Remarks areas for our country.
  As always, if these cuts do pass, they will fall on the shoulders on 
the working poor and middle class. It is obvious that Republican 
lawmakers in the House remain indifferent to the suffering the cuts 
could bring to the American people. Moreover, as shown in a study 
conducted by Moody's Analytics, their budget plan also jeopardizes 
American jobs and our country's economic future by rolling back 
investments that would help the private sector to grow and put people 
back to work!

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