[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5717-5718]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        AMERICA'S MORAL COMPASS

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I have always viewed the budget 
document that is produced by this House

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and the Senate and the President as a moral compass of America's 
commitment to her people.
  That is why I rise with such great disappointment on the Republican 
Ryan budget in that today, as we speak in the Rules Committee, we are 
gutting investments in education, scientific research, advanced 
manufacturing. We are cutting from those vital transportation 
investments by over $52 billion when we have crumbling highways and 
crumbling dams and crumbling infrastructure. We are slashing $145 
billion from the very heart of our children's opportunity for education 
out of the Pell grants, providing millionaires with over $200,000 in a 
tax break, ending Medicare as we know it by vouchering it--almost like 
the privatization of Social Security--and cutting Medicaid by $732 
billion, then ending the opportunity for Americans to have access to 
affordable health care, preventative health care, so as to be able to 
allow those who need health care to have it--to avoid being a third 
world country.
  There are 25 million Americans who need access to health care. Let's 
get a better moral document and reject this present Republican budget.

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