[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3731]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE SENATE BUDGET

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, on another matter, several weeks ago 
the White House released an unserious budget that would have raised 
taxes by nearly $2 trillion and increase the national debt by more than 
$7 trillion. In other words, it was more of the same old tired, failed 
policies of the past. Hardly anyone took that budget seriously mostly 
because it was not meant to be taken seriously.
  Contrast that with the balanced budget the Senate will introduce this 
morning. It is a budget that controls spending, reduces the deficit, 
and improves programs such as Medicaid. It is a budget that will 
support economic growth and more opportunity for hard-working families 
while protecting our most vulnerable citizens. It is a budget that will 
allow us to repeal and replace a program that hurts the middle class, 
ObamaCare. It will allow us to repeal and replace a program that hurts 
the middle class, ObamaCare.
  I thank the chairman of the Budget Committee, Senator Enzi, for his 
good work on this sensible budget.
  We have heard some talk of shrinking deficits these days. Of course, 
Republicans are proud to take credit for helping force some fiscal 
responsibility on the Obama administration, but we know these deficits 
will soon shoot up dramatically if Washington does not start making 
more commonsense choices.
  The reality is our country still has many tough fiscal challenges to 
confront. These are not challenges that can just be taxed away. These 
are not challenges that can be denied away either. But by working 
together these are challenges we can overcome, and the way we can 
overcome them is with sensible ideas to get spending under control and 
make government more efficient, more effective, and more accountable, 
just as the Senate's budget proposes to do.

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