Eva M. Clayton: “the Democratic budget does many things. It is both prudent and caring. Certainly it pays down the debt by the year 2013…”

“the Democratic budget does many things. It is both prudent and caring. Certainly it pays down the debt by the year 2013 and certainly it protects Medicare, it protects Social Security; and yes, it does a sufficient amount of investment in our military and our retirees who have served our country well. But in addition to that, it invests in education. It also does something that the Republican budget does not do. It cares about its most vulnerable people, those people who are left out of the bountiful plenty of prosperity that we are enjoying. It cares about legal immigrants. It cares about the poorest of the poor trying to get day care going to work. It invests in after-school programs. It invests and brings up the shelter and provision caps for food stamps. It makes it even for all States. Not only is the Democratic budget a prudent one, but it says American prosperity should be for everyone. I invite my colleagues to make sure that everybody is included in this prosperity. The Democratic budget does that.”