[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6302]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 BUDGET

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, over the last 48 hours, this 
House engaged in its constitutional right of creating a pathway for 
revenue for the United States of America. Sadly, we ended just a few 
minutes ago on a Republican budget that cannot claim that it will, in 
essence, reduce the deficit or create a surplus in any given year.
  I am delighted to have supported the Democratic budget that reduces 
the deficit and reaches a primary balance by 2018. But more 
importantly, I think I am very delighted that the American people will 
see a heart in this budget: that we will not destroy Medicare; that we 
will not burden on seniors the extra $12,000 that seniors will have to 
pay--that is right, $12,000--in the Medicare program under the 
Republican plan; and that young people will not be prevented at the 
doors of colleges from going to school, and that Head Start will end 
and Medicaid for the disabled and seniors will end.
  I do have faith in this country, and I believe we will get a budget 
that is both merciful and balanced the right way for the American 
people, not the wrong way. Today, unfortunately, we made a wrong step, 
but I believe together we will make it right.

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