Debbie Dingell: “I stand here once again watching my Republican colleagues add billions of dollars to the deficit and public debt. I…”

“I stand here once again watching my Republican colleagues add billions of dollars to the deficit and public debt. I watch them take money out of the pockets of working families so that they may line the pockets of their fat cat friends. This budget is a betrayal to working families across America, to seniors, veterans and especially to our children and grandchildren, who will be left to clean up this Administration's fiscal disaster. I am amazed that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have managed to turn record surpluses into record deficits in a mere three years. This budget does nothing to remedy the situation and continues further down the same road. By using a 5-year budget instead of a traditional 10-year budget, my Republican colleagues are attempting to hid the real costs of their outrageous plan. After five years, the cost of making the tax giveaways permanent will grow drastically. Over the next ten years, the tax giveaways in this plan will cost $1.2 trillion. My Republican colleagues will not even apply the ``pay-as-you-go'' method to their tax giveaways because they know we cannot afford them. These budget gimmicks and rascality cannot be tolerated. The American people deserve to know the outrageous credit card bills the Bush Administration is racking up in their name and with their credit.”