House Proceeding 04-02-09 on Apr 2nd, 2009 :: 0:23:55 to 0:26:25
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Speech By: Rosa L. DeLauro

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Rosa L. DeLauro: would have to do that. a gentleman who says i have to take care of my kids, i never thoughi would go to a food pantry, i was humiliated and i felt like a low life, but my kids need to eat. that's what this budget would cut. nutrition programs. to be sure, the committee could

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Rosa L. DeLauro: reach a target here by reducing farm price supports but the gentleman from wisconsin has said he will not open the farm bill. that means that the nutrition programs are the only place to do their cutting, leaving millions of families, seniors, wome price. our opponents have just trotted out the failed programs of the past.

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Rosa L. DeLauro: and they are dealing with $3.3 trillion in tax years. i can get 30 seconds? the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. spratt: i yield the gentlelady 30 seconds. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for 30 seconds. ms. delauro: they ignore urgent challenges we faced a a nation. they'll poor trillions of

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Rosa L. DeLauro: dollars into tax cuts, most of it going to the wealthiest americans. this budget is the last thing our economy needs now or down the road. the kind of drastic cuts to cut essential services that will raise costs which will destroy

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our ability to compete and to grow. it's a relic of eight long years of a failed economic policy of the bush administration. the american public rejected it. i urge my colleagues to think realistically about the national challenge and to oppose this substitute budget. the chair: the gentleman from

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south carolina. mr. spratt: i recognize mr. drews for a minute. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. andrews: i ask to revise and extend. if you ever wonder what a third bush term would look like, this is it. this is a budget plan that maintaing the tax breaks for the wealthiest people in

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america, pays for it by giving people 55 and under go fend for themselves in the insurance market instead of medicare, that i think would pay maybe 80% of what it costs. i only have a minute, friend, if you give me some of your time, i would. i'll tell you what, with when you get your time, i'll answer your questionless. it would privatize social

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security, it would squeeze money out of -- mr. ryan: there is no privatization of social security in this bill. could you she me where that is? the chair: the gentleman will suspend. mr. andrews: may i continue? the chair: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. andrews: it continues the enormously successful policy of deregulation that has brought us

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Paul Ryan: to the brink of financial disaster. it doesn't work. it doesn't work. for every one job this approach has created, our approach has created 108. we shouldn go back to a sequel for a movie that was so bad to begin with. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i yield myself 10