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On the recordJuly 19, 2011
Cut, Cap, and Balance is not a jobs bill; it's a job-killing bill. It's a new way of trying to ramrod the Ryan budget proposal down our throats. It's the Ryan budget with lipstick, and it's really just slash-and-burn politics with a new face. Today, the Republicans will vote unanimously for this draconian slash-and-burn Ryan budget plan that they now call ``Cut, Cap, and Balance.'' For the third time, the Republicans will vote unanimously to cut Medicare and change Social Security to a voucher program that puts our seniors at the mercy of the for-profit insurance companies. And that's real. We need jobs and economic growth, not cut, cap and balance, which is, again, just slash-and-burn politics, the Ryan budget proposal with lipstick. And that's the real deal. That's realer than ``Real Deal Holyfield.'' ____________________
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia

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