On the recordNovember 4, 2005
I am appalled by the cruel and short- sighted leadership the Republican Party is giving us in planning to ram through this reconciliation next week. They want to provide an additional $70 billion to $100 billion in tax cuts for the privileged and the powerful and their Fortune 500 corporate benefactors. In order to pay for this, they plan to cut $4.9 billion from child support programs that help collect money from deadbeat dads; $14.5 billion from student aid programs, $9.5 billion in Medicaid, and they even want to cut tens of millions of dollars from low-income energy assistance. Mr. Speaker, you will hear more from the Progressive Caucus, more from the Democratic Party next week about just how unfair these cuts will be to real moderate-income people and the very poor people in this country and how much they will benefit the very, very wealthy people in this country. ____________________
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