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Chuck Schumer: What I would say is, very simply, if we look at this budget with regard to toxic waste cleanups, welfare reform, weak on…

On the recordJune 12, 1996
What I would say is, very simply, if we look at this budget with regard to toxic waste cleanups, welfare reform, weak on work but tough on kids, bigger deficits, not smaller, raising the deficit, limiting direct student loans, tax increases on working families, limiting guarantees for health care for low-income women and children and seniors in nursing homes, hundreds of rural hospitals cut, doctors to overcharge seniors for Medicare, and the list goes on and on, it is an extreme budget. It is a wrong budget. We will defeat it.
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Chuck Schumer
Democratic · New York

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Criticizing the budget proposal during a Senate floor debate.

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