[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5335]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          A REVERSE ROBIN HOOD

  (Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, just yesterday, the Veterans 
Affairs' Committee held a hearing where the Deputy Secretary of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs stated, because of the budget cuts that 
the Republicans are advocating and a likely government shutdown, 
veterans' pension checks may not go out on time.
  Believe it or not, this is not April Fool's.
  At the same time that the veterans' checks may arrive late, my 
Republican colleagues want to extend tax breaks for millionaires and 
billionaires. Just last December, we were forced to vote on extending 
the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, adding $700 
billion to the deficit. The Republican plan for the FY11 budget, as 
well as the new budget plan they just released, are nothing more than a 
reverse Robin Hood--taking from the poor and middle class people to 
give huge tax breaks to the rich.
  You know, Mr. Speaker, you can fool some of the people some of the 
time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. The 
American people will wake up.

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