Bob Menendez: “what have America's children ever done to the Republican Party? Because if one looks at this budget bill, one can only…”

“what have America's children ever done to the Republican Party? Because if one looks at this budget bill, one can only conclude that children have somehow wronged House Republicans. Why else would there be an all-out assault against our Nation's most vulnerable and their families. This Republican budget guts vital services for New Jersey's working families and those across the country. For a party that talks about family values, in this bill Republicans walk away from nearly every responsibility we have as parents and legislators. What type of value cuts more than $14 billion in student loan funding, increasing the costs of college for American families by $6,000? What type of value could deny 6 million children the health care they need, adding to the 9 million children who are uninsured? What type of value decimates Federal funding for child support enforcement by $5 billion, allowing deadbeat parents to avoid their responsibility? What type of value leaves an estimated 270,000 children without child care while cutting foster care by over $500 million? What type of value forces 300,000 low-income families to lose their food stamps? What type of value increases the deficit by over $100 billion, leaving our children and our grandchildren to repay tomorrow the tax cuts we are giving to the wealthy today? The chairman talked about the bureaucracy that failed the people of the gulf coast. It is your Republican administration that failed them and fails them tonight.…”