On the recordJuly 19, 2011
I still fail to see how it helps our kids and helps our seniors to write into the Constitution of the United States a bias in favor of cutting Medicare and cutting Social Security and cutting education before cutting special interest tax breaks. They would require only a majority to cut Social Security and Medicare, but two-thirds to get rid of special interest tax breaks for the purpose of reducing the deficit. That's why this is a question of priorities and a question of balance. How do we reduce the deficit? How do we get it into balance? I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney).
