[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4175]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, the Republicans' budget would endanger 
American lives while it destroys American jobs. It will increase every 
American's likelihood of getting sick from unsafe meat and poultry, 
contaminated drinking water, and foreign food additives. Fewer police 
will make our streets less safe. The chances of curing cancer, 
Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease are all seriously diminished. Most 
of the cuts target poor people, but the hundreds of program cuts will 
also endanger all of our lives.
  We've thrown hundreds of programs into a dump truck Republicans call 
H.R. 1 bound for the trash compactor. Let's reach in, though, and look 
at just one of those: meat inspection. The law requires a Federal 
inspector to be present at all 6,000 slaughterhouses and packing plants 
across the country, but this Republican budget's 19 percent cut will 
require 8,600 such inspectors to be furloughed for 22 days, which means 
that packing plants like Hormel's may have to lay off thousands of 
people for that period of time.
  Why do this when Federal inspectors stopped 9.5 million pounds of 
poisoned meat just last year alone in 71 recalls. Let's derail this 
dump truck called H.R. 1.

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