[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4323]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 REPUBLICAN BUDGET PROCESS FAILS NATION

  (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, tomorrow is April 
15, the deadline for passing a budget. It is clear that the Republicans 
are going to miss it. From the start, this process has been a travesty.
  Before President Obama even released his budget, Republicans 
announced that they would refuse to hold a hearing on it. They rejected 
the President's budget out of hand even before it was printed, a move 
unprecedented in this modern era.
  Then they passed out of committee a budget that would end the 
Medicare guarantee, take healthcare coverage away from 20 million 
Americans who received it under the Affordable Care Act, and make deep 
cuts that harm children, students, seniors, and hardworking Americans.
  Then the Tea Party wing of the GOP insisted on walking away from the 
bipartisan budget agreement inked just last fall.
  So that brings us to today. My Republican colleagues don't seem to 
have a budget or a plan to move forward. The process has collapsed.
  I urge my colleagues to start over and to work with Democrats to 
craft a budget that invests in our future and meets the challenges 
facing our Nation.

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