[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5104]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       REPUBLICAN BUDGET PROPOSAL

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. Today, the Republicans released their budget. Budgets 
are really moral documents, and Republicans have made clear that their 
moral compass puts hedge fund managers and big corporations ahead of 
America's middle class and senior citizens. Republicans gut education 
programs and investments in job creation, privatize Medicare, slash 
Medicaid, but leaving plenty of money to help subsidize big oil 
companies and to give tax breaks to those companies that put our jobs 
overseas.
  There is another way. I have a bill that would create new tax 
brackets for millionaires and billionaires, still lower than those 
under Ronald Reagan, and would raise $74 billion in 2011.
  We can bring down the deficit, and we can do it while protecting 
programs that create jobs and that don't further burden old people, the 
poor, and middle class Americans.

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