[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5872]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            THE RYAN BUDGET

  (Ms. SCHAKOWSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. You know, budgets aren't just about a series of 
numbers. Budgets fundamentally are moral documents. And I fear that 
Republicans have made clear that their moral compass puts the wealthy 
and big business ahead of the American middle class, our seniors, 
disabled, and poor.
  In order to pay for an enormous tax cut for millionaires and 
billionaires, they are ready to abolish the guarantee of Medicare. In 
order to protect tax cuts for the oil industry, they would cut 
Medicaid, resulting in seniors and the disabled being forced out of 
nursing homes and causing poor children to lose health care coverage or 
pay more. In order to pay for tax cuts for businesses that ship 
American jobs overseas, they would cut investments in education and job 
training programs.
  The Republican budget does not represent Americans' core values and 
should be rejected.

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