[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17292]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 SENIOR CITIZENS ARE COLLATERAL DAMAGE

  (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. Social Security has nothing to do with the debt 
problems that we are facing now, and seniors and the disabled should 
not be held hostage by the Republicans, whose only priority in this 
debate is to protect America's wealthiest citizens.
  Under former President Bush, our Nation financed two wars on our 
credit card, and senior citizens should not be collateral damage. We 
lost trillions of dollars through irresponsible tax cuts. So let's be 
clear that tax cuts are the same as spending when it comes to the 
deficit. Now the Republican Party's proposed solution is to make up the 
difference by taking money from seniors. That is unacceptable.
  I am from Florida, the home of Claude Pepper. If he were here today, 
he would be furious that a program developed to keep seniors out of 
poverty has been jeopardized by tax cuts for millionaires and 
billionaires.

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