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the chair:he gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: madam chair, i'll yield myself two minutes of the time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. an: the only thing thas on the assent in this budget is the national debt. the budget's of our government agencies, the tax burden on the american people, the deficits.

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the gentleman who just spoke. we're good friends, and he is an honorable man. and we just have honorable disagreements. the chairman and i have a lot of respect for one another. we're friends. we have honest disagreements. i wish we could have more debate about this because we are really truly debating the fiscal future of this nation right here. you know, i asked for this

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they can bring this thing through here in just a few hours of debate in the people's house, no more than 20 hours of debate in the other chamber without amendments. they can get this agenda passed so fast with this procedural stunt that the american people won't know what hit them. i just have to ask a question. you know, should we be giving

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Paul Ryan: this budget says let's give them another 13% increase. we passed bail giving the environmental protection agency a 92% increase in their budget this year. this bill says that wasn't enough. i yield myself an additional 30 seconds. the chair: 30 seconds. mr. ryan: this bill says that wasn't enough.

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Paul Ryan: let's give them another 35%. the problem is this -- we're chasing ever higher spending with ever higher taxes, and the taxes never catch up with the spending so the debt we' increasing is the highest we've

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Lynn Jenkins: i heard stories from small business owners who are afraid that higher taxes will force them to close their doors and lay off employees. as well as from middle-class families scrimping to pay their bills and saving a little each month. one family wrote this, we are not asking for money from the

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Lynn Jenkins: by 2019 and will increase the tax burden on working families across the nation to allow for massive new spending plans to grow government. my constituents in kansas sent me to washington to protect their hard-earned paychecks. it's very disappointing that this budget falls so short of the fiscal discipline rhetoric that we heard so much about lately.

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Lynn Jenkins: from texas, mr. hensarling. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentleman for yielding. as i hear closely from my friends on the other side of the aisle, there are themes that continues to recur.

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now, this year for 2009 it's going to be $1.8 trillion, a 10-fold increase under the democratic watch in just two years. they inherited the own mess. in december of 2006, unemployment stood at 4.4%.

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Jeb Hensarling: when the deficit was less than $400 billion and falling, still too great a number. the majority leader of the house, then minority leader, mr. hoyer, the gentleman from maryland, said this was equivalent to fiscal child abuse, fiscal child abuse. and now we have a deficit four

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Jeb Hensarling: more debt will be run up on this democratic budget, this radical budget in 10 years than has been run up in the entire history of our republic. a sea of red ink for generations to come. now, part of that generation to come is my 7-year-old daughter and my 5-year-old son.

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Jeb Hensarling: wouldn't be on the floor. it would not be on the floor. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. ryan: i give the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. hensarling: and one other point i would like to make, changing subje see the gentleman from new jersey on the floor now. but in speaking about the national energy tax, it reminds

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Devin Nunes: now we'r price. the congressional budget office says the national energy tax is going to cost the average american family at least $1,600. we know what you are. you are a national energy tax. now we're just haggling over the cost that will be imposed on struggling hardworking families in america imposed by

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Devin Nunes: . mr. ryan: i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlem california. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. nunez: i had to come back down here because i heard folks on the other side of the aisle saying there was no energy tax in here. last night out here on the floor late in the evening we talked about cap and trade a lot of americans don't know what cap

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Devin Nunes: does it come out of the sky? do we print it at the federal reserve? do we borrow it from the united nations? but bill that's got to come from somewhere. so it's disguised as cap and trade, but it is a flat out energy tax.

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Devin Nunes: that he will have amassed more debt than every single president that this country has ever had. more debt. those are the things that we know. so unless the majority can tell us what's going to happen, where this money's going to come from,

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Steve Buyer: louis -- hallucinating. we need to figure that out, madam speaker. i would urge a no vote on this budget. let's go back, let's determine where these taxes are coming from because absolutely -- because is is absolutely reckless. with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from mr. ryan: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. buyer. the chair: the gentleman from

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Steve Buyer: indiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. buyer: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objecon, so ordered. mr. buyer: i thank the gentleman for his hard work and i thank you and your staff also for creating this alternative budget. it's a budget i believe that you can be very proud of. madam speaker, this alternative

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Steve Buyer: democrat plan all while not raising taxes. this alternative budget also reflects the plyors of the house committee on veterans' affairs. the republican views and estimates for f.y. 2010 which included ensuring a seamless transition from d.o.d. to v.a. it also provides for the innovative progrs to help veterans gain job skills and

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Steve Buyer: the president's budget proposed for veterans, the overall budget for which we are having to vote on here request is really nothing more than the same old shell game we have come to know here in washington, d.c. president obama had promised that the budget would -- me, he promised this open and transparent budget.

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Steve Buyer: health insurance to pay for treatment in the service connected injuries. i like many of my fellow veterans were outrage bide proposal. we strongly believe that the same villmiltary values that guided us in our -- same military values that guided us in our service, these values helped guide us and define the principles and allowed us to say unto the administration you

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Steve Buyer: with president obama at the white house, did ts proposal then get out of the under the american people. only then did some of my democrat leaders here in the house then in order to get in front of that parade said, yes, i'm just as outraged. no. i got to look att like this. character is defined at the moment of calling. what do you do at the moment of call?

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Silvestre Reyes: and take charge, take control? it didn't happen and i was greatly disappointed. the speaker pro tempore: -- the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from south carolina. has 7 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. spratt: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, the chairman of the intelligence committee, a vietnam veteran, a colonel in the border guard, mr. reyes. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized

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Silvestre Reyes: minutes. mr. reyes: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank him for his leadership of the committee. and for the inclusive process that he has utilized to come up with this budget resolution. madam chair, i rise in support of h.con.res. 85, and i urge my

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Silvestre Reyes: department of defense and for the veterans budget. it also funds above the administration's defense reest. these additions help this country meet its military goals. it supports the efforts to reform the acquisition program.

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Silvestre Reyes: having this separate request is important. it provides the transparency that has been missing in describing the real cost of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. this funding is important as we sustain our efforts in iraq with an eye towards responsibly reducing troop levels throughout the coming two years. this fund something also

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Silvestre Reyes: their -- an additional minute. mr. spratt: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. the chair: 30 seconds. mr. reyes: our professionals stand ready to continue the support to the war fight also continue the support to the policymakers that are working on issues that affect not just our country but the entire world.

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Silvestre Reyes: back the balan the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: from south carolina has the right to close, is that correct? the chair: yes, that's true. mr. ryan: does the chairman -- does the gentleman from south carolina have any other speakers? mr. spratt: i yield one to the gentlelady from new

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this prism. does it help the middle class, the military, and military families and the vets and those families with medical probls, the elderly, and families with kids in school? the answer is resounding yes. that is why i support this budget that supports the middle class. 95% of americans will get a tax cut. this budget helps our military

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the chair: the gentlewoman yields back her time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i take it the chair has no other mr. spratt: i have one other speakers -- speaker, possibly two. the chai south carolina has four minutes remaing. the gentleman from wisconsin has