[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4367]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            A DEJA VU BUDGET

  (Mr. TONKO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, here we go again. It's deja vu all over 
again.
  Simply put, the Ryan-Romney Republican budget ends Medicare. AARP 
said: ``The proposal lacks balance and jeopardizes the health and 
economic security of older Americans.''
  The budget we will consider this week fails the test of balance, 
fairness, and shared responsibility. It showers the few Americans that 
are the very wealthy with an average tax cut of at least $150,000, 
while preserving giveaways to Big Oil companies and Wall Street CEOs.
  What's worse is that all these tax breaks would be paid for by ending 
Medicare and cutting education, basic research, and new sources of 
energy.
  Obviously, this budget rejects all of our American values.
  This is not the first time the other side has tried to end Medicare. 
They tried it last year, too. The American people rejected the Ryan 
proposal then and they will reject this latest attack on our middle 
class now.

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