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Despite the deficit the debt and the dire economic circumstances that exist in this country today we have the opportunity in this budget to right the wrongs of hundreds of years of unequal treatment of racial and ethnic minorities, women…
I agree with our President, this is something we cannot afford not to do.
We need to understand the universal coverage alone will not eliminate them and that the elimination of health disparities needs to be a central part of health care reform.
I urge the Committee to support full funding for the Assistance to Firefighter Grants and the Community Oriented Policing Services program.
I also urge the Committee to support an additional $25 billion for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program.
We need a budget that recognizes the need for job creation, provides funding for research and development, and supports programs to ensure our workers have the education and skills necessary for the jobs of the future.
Clean energy means American jobs now and in the future.
The Pete Peterson Institute just did a survey. 56 percent of the people, bipartisan, in every part of the country favored this concept.
It's time for Congress to deliver on its responsibilities to the American people and have an honest conversation about the state of our finances.
The American people are frankly experiencing a crisis of confidence in this institution and in government.
This institution is broken. The people have no confidence. I don't think this institution is going to fix it.
I am not going to stand by and allow this country to collapse simply because this Congress can't come together.
To preserve the independence of the people, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Jim Cooper and I put a bill in yesterday. We had it in last year.
Secretary Clinton went to China with a tin cup begging never wanting to offend the dictators of Beijing.
I have little faith that this Congress will act through regular order and believe it will take a commission with teeth for Congress to act.
To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.