[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3775]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          THERE THEY GO AGAIN

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. The Ryan budget. In the words of the great Republican 
President, whom the Republicans like to remember: There they go again.
  It's the same budget. It's catering to the wealthy, and it's cutting 
the middle class. It's reducing the top tax rate to 25 percent, which 
will give the wealthiest $200,000 a piece in tax breaks, and it 
continues the sequestration--a stupid, meat-ax approach to our budget 
that cuts $1.6 billion from the National Institutes of Health.
  Does anybody out there, Mr. Speaker, have cancer? Heart disease? Is 
anybody thinking about some relative who might have Alzheimer's? AIDS? 
Post-polio? Diabetes?
  Cures and treatments come from the National Institutes of Health, and 
you're not going to get them if they cut $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion 
out of it. The cures and treatment will benefit the next generation 
more than this generation, and that's what we should be doing is 
investing there. This foolish, meat-ax approach is to be continued with 
the Ryan budget, and it will cost us lives and stop us from being a 
leader in research and innovation. We need to have a smart budget and 
invest in the National Institutes of Health and preserve our human 
infrastructure.

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