[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4363]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        BUDGETS ARE ABOUT VALUES

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, budgets are about values. The 
budget we are about to debate today, the Republican budget, does not 
reflect American values. It is a budget for the survival of the 
fittest. It cuts the highest tax bracket from 35 percent to 25 percent. 
That's going to add $5 trillion to the debt. In order to compensate for 
that, this budget cuts $5.7 trillion in domestic discretionary 
spending.
  If this budget were ever to become law, it would push back all the 
progress we've made over generations in terms of malnutrition, in terms 
of poverty rates, in terms of protecting our seniors. It is a budget 
that would make Charles Darwin blush. It is a budget not worthy of this 
House, and it is a budget I hope will be resoundingly rejected because 
of the values that do not reflect America at its best.

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