Saxby Chambliss: “I, too, want to take a minute to commend the Black Caucus for putting this budget together and setting their priorities…”

“I, too, want to take a minute to commend the Black Caucus for putting this budget together and setting their priorities right. I have an historic black college in my district, Fort Valley State University, which I am very proud to represent and work very closely with those folks individually as well as through the university system to ensure their priorities are addressed. I have any number of good friends who are members of this caucus, and we appreciate the hard work that you all have done. I want to talk for just a minute and remind folks again why we deem our budget to be the best. First of all, we are going to save and continue to protect Social Security by setting aside 100 percent of the Social Security surplus to pay the beneficiaries of Social Security. We are going to strengthen Medicare to include a prescription drug provision. We are going to retire the public debt. We are going to set it on course to be retired by 2013. In this budget, over the next 5 years we are going to retire $1 trillion worth of debt. We are going to promote tax fairness for families, for small business people, for farmers, and for seniors. We are going to restore America's defense, and we are going to strengthen support for education and science.”