[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9305]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

  (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, I listened with great interest 
last night on the debate pertaining to cutting funds for children and 
women with the Department of Agriculture. And I'm greatly disturbed by 
the assertion that we should do that and cut programs for senior 
citizens and the disabled because of the budgetary problems that we're 
having here in Washington.
  Yes, we're having problems; but those problems did not start 18 
months ago. Those problems have been going on for a very long time. And 
we're making decisions. And when we voted--not I--in December to give 
billionaires and millionaires $780 billion and then in June and April 
you say you don't have money for pension checks and you don't have 
money for senior citizens and you don't have money for children and 
babies, it's a mispriority.
  And for people to get on this floor and constantly talk about the 
recovery and the number of jobs, well, I want to submit just for the 
record the number of jobs that were saved in Florida and Georgia and 
other places because of the Recovery Act.

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