Kendrick Meek: “Well, what I am going is do is just pepper in, Mr. Speaker, the difference from what the Republican majority is…”

“Well, what I am going is do is just pepper in, Mr. Speaker, the difference from what the Republican majority is proposing and ran out of town without voting on because it is a budget of shame versus what we have put forth as our budgets. And then Ms. Wasserman Schultz is going to share with us what the former Speaker, the first Republican Speaker in a number of years, when the Republicans took over the House, what he has to say about the Republican majority. But let me just, once again, you know, more of the same versus change. Okay? And the bottom line is, is this budget that we were supposed to vote on, either tomorrow or today, you let the majority tell it, is it fiscally responsible? Number 1, we have a chart, and this chart, Mr. Speaker, for the majority Members and also for the American people, will be on housedemocrats.gov website starting tomorrow. Is it fiscally responsible? No. The GOP budget calls for deficits as far as the eye can see. Never achieving balance, a balanced budget, adding another $2.3 trillion to the national debt over the next 5 years. Democratic budget, yes. Fiscally responsible. The deficit is lower than the GOP budget over the next 5 years and gets to a balanced budget, balanced budget, Mr. Speaker, in 6 years basically using pay- as-you-go rules which require that spending increases and tax cuts be paid for, and which brought us into a budget surplus in the 1990s. That is fact. That is not fiction. I yield to Ms. Wasserman Schultz.”