House Proceeding on Mar 24th, 2009 :: 0:25:20 to 0:30:20
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Robert C. Scott: to the omnibus lands bill to protect the gun rights of americans when we take up this bill presumably tomorrow. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, for five minutes.

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Speech By: Robert C. Scott

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Robert C. Scott: mr. scott: mr. speaker, th week theouse budget committee will mark up the concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2010. over a month ago president obama submitted a 2010 budget plan focusing on economic recovery, strategic investments, and most importantly fiscal responsibility. this critical jungture president

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Robert C. Scott: obama's budget addresses the mistakes of the past, makes much needed investments in the future, lean create a better future for all americans. as we debate the merits of this budget resolution, we must not forget that president obama inherited deep deficits and an economic crisis from the bush administration. this chart shows the budget

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Robert C. Scott: deficit over the years of the clinton administration and what the bush administration did to the budget. the bush administration left behind a $1.25 trillion deficit, a high unemployment rate, and an economy on the verge of collapse. president obama came into office merely two months ago, but he has already successfully proposed the american recovery

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Robert C. Scott: and reinvestmt act which will create or save 3.5 million jobs. the president's budget continues the path towards economic recovery and fiscal responsibility with many of the necessary investments in education. the president's budget expands the college education, access to college education by making the american opportunity tax cut --

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Robert C. Scott: tax credit permanent and indexing pell grants to keep pace with inflation and the skyrocketing cost of college education. the president also doubles funding for early head start and expands head start. the presidens budget calls for improving and expanding access to health insurance and lowering the cost of health care for every american. the president's budget includes

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Robert C. Scott: several provisions to improve quality and efficiency in the health care system, saving the american people approximately $300 billion over the next 10 years. the president believes that the only way to rein in the cost of government for the foreseeable future is to address the costs associated with health care. this budget does that.

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Robert C. Scott: the president's budget also ensures that the nation honors and cares for our veterans when they return home by increasing funding for the department of veterans' affairs by $25 billion over the next five years. this increased fund will go help the v.a. reduce their claims backlog and modernize and improve v.a. hospitals and facilities. these investments in the v.a.

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Robert C. Scott: will help address the large influx of new veterans into the v.a. system from the wars in iraq and afghanistan. so, mr. speaker, perhaps the most telling feature of the president's budget is that it is an honest measure of where we are and where we are going. the bush administration used phantom budget tactics to keep the cost of many expensive

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Robert C. Scott: measures out of the budget. unlike budgets submitted i the past few years, the obama budget honestly includes the cost of our military operations in iraq and afghanistan and other items we know we must pay for and have paid for every year such as the medicare doctor's payment fix and the alternative minimum tax.

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Robert C. Scott: . president obama's budget takes the necessary steps to put the budget back on a sustainable path. the budget proposes to cut the deficit in half by 2013 and additionally, the president's budget proposes that we'll restore the fiscally responsible pay-as-you-go rules which were critical in turning

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Robert C. Scott: the budget around in the 1990's. many may claim that the president's budget will cause deficits, but those who advocate the problems with the president's budget fail to remind themselves that the policies that they in fact are advocating are the policies that got us in the ditch we're in today.

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Robert C. Scott: what they forget is this nation had to endure eight years of failed economic policies which produced one of the worst recessions in 70 years, the worst job growth since the great depression, the increase in the numbers of americans living in poverty, increased the numbers without health insurance. furthermore, the bush administration degraded the

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Robert C. Scott: federal budget's condition from healthy to weak and converting a $5.5 trillion surplus to a $3 trillion deficit, a swing of more than $9 trillion over eight years, an average of over $1 trillion a year. mr. speaker, these policies have failed. it's time to turn to the policies that work. the president's budget does just that.

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Robert C. Scott: as a member of the house budget committee, we look forward to