Xavier Becerra: “I want to quote something that was said by the new chairman of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. John Kasich, who said…”

“I want to quote something that was said by the new chairman of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. John Kasich, who said this about deficit reduction. ``I do not think that Republican special interest programs ought to be spared. I think we ought to look at corporate welfare before this process is over.''... I would say that in this new ``Newt'' world that we face, that the needs of hard-working, middle-class families should not take a back seat to the needs of the very affluent. But quite honestly, I cannot see anything that says that we are not going in that direction, when everything points to capital gains tax cuts. Cuts to the poor, cuts to the middle income in their programs. Not tax cuts, but spending cuts that would help them. Child Nutrition Program cuts, all of this, yet we are going to increase spending for the military.”