[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               THE BUDGET

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, it is time for 
Congress to admit what people with common sense all across America have 
known for years: mindless austerity just does not work. It doesn't grow 
the economy, it does not add jobs, and it doesn't unleash anything 
except misery.
  The sequester was a bad idea from the start. The country needs to 
embrace its can-do spirit, and Congress has to stop saying: ``Sorry, we 
just can't.''
  The President's budget is tailor-made to help hardworking middle 
class families get ahead. It will invest in education, strengthen 
workers' skills, provide tax relief for the middle class, and rebuild 
our infrastructure. This is exactly what we need to build on the record 
of the 58 months of job growth we are experiencing and to make sure 
that everyone shares in the gains of our growing economy.

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