[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4506]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     A BUDGET IS A VALUES STATEMENT

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to comment on the budget that was 
passed yesterday out of this House by the Republicans.
  I come from Scranton, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of our Vice 
President. Our Vice President is often heard to say that people talk 
about family values all the time, family values this, family values 
that. He says: Look, don't talk to me about your values. Show me your 
budget, and I will tell you what your values are.
  This Republican budget was something that I could not support because 
it will have the effect of cutting over 1 million jobs over the next 
year. Even worse than that, it will turn Medicare into, effectively, a 
voucher program. If you are on Medicare and you need treatment and they 
give you a voucher, you had better hope that that voucher covers the 
services you need; otherwise, you are out of luck.
  So if your values include increasing jobs and employment in this 
country and taking care of our seniors, that Republican budget was not 
the one to vote for.

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