Austin Scott: “Well, Mr. Chairman, my point was simply to try to respond to the accusations that were made to our side. I will respect…”

“Well, Mr. Chairman, my point was simply to try to respond to the accusations that were made to our side. I will respect that. But my point, if I may continue, is that it really gets on your nerves a bit when the other side makes these accusations which are totally bald-faced wrong. When it says, for example, the previous speaker said, for example, that we did not support the President's tax cuts. Not only did we, as they said, on the Democratic side, some of us did, but we have very seriously kept, the tax cuts of the President from 2001 and 2003 are secured in this budget. That is a fact. And they are consistent with our House pay-as-you-go rule. The alternative minimum tax, which otherwise would hit tens of millions of families, these families are protected in this. And the area where it presses us so and in previous budgets, the President's previous budgets have cut veterans. We increase the funding for veterans by over $2 billion in this budget. It is a good budget.”