[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5374]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              RYAN BUDGET

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, we learned the details of the 
Ryan budget, a proposal that would have devastating impacts on my 
western New York community.
  For seniors, the Ryan budget would put Medicare on the road to 
privatization, handing older Americans a voucher and forcing them to 
fend for themselves to find quality health care.
  This budget slashes Pell grants that provide young people the 
opportunity for a college education; ends AmeriCorps, a program filling 
a critical need in urban schools and neighborhoods; and eliminates all 
support for the National Endowment for the Arts.
  The Ryan budget would gut domestic priorities such as infrastructure, 
education, and medical research, cutting nation-building here by $791 
billion in less than a decade.
  A budget is the clearest message of a nation's values. The Ryan 
budget abandons seniors, students, patients awaiting medical 
breakthroughs, and struggling families. This is not who we are as a 
nation.

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