Chris Van Hollen: “What the Democratic leader asked was how could we tell the children that we chose to reduce the deficit by cutting their…”

“What the Democratic leader asked was how could we tell the children that we chose to reduce the deficit by cutting their ability to afford college rather than cutting subsidies for the oil and gas industry? Those are the kind of choices we're making. This is not a question about whether to reduce the deficit. This is a question about how we do it and what priorities we have. And we think it's absolutely the wrong priority to put in the Constitution of the United States a preference to cutting education, to cutting Medicare as compared to cutting subsidies for special interest corporations, special interest tax breaks for the purposes of reducing the deficit. With that, I yield 1\1/4\ minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel). {time} 1840”