Louise Slaughter: “the budget resolution was presented to the Committee on Rules past the stroke of midnight last night and can only be…”

“the budget resolution was presented to the Committee on Rules past the stroke of midnight last night and can only be fully considered by my colleagues who have a graduate degree from the Evelyn Woods School of Speed Reading. It makes some pretty important decisions, which one would think would keep my friends from acting like a teenager who broke curfew by sneaking into the House through the basement door. But here it is, so I rise to speak on the rule and to encourage opposition to this budget resolution offered by my friends on the other side of the aisle. Thanks to many tough choices and some very difficult votes, some of them bipartisan but too often only from this side of the aisle, we are no longer running budget deficits and are in a position to secure the future for seniors, children and working Americans across our economy. The budget surpluses which are now projected give us new opportunities to make more, smarter, and tougher fiscal decisions. But this budget resolution resolves to do less with more. The conference report does nothing to make sure Social Security will be solvent for the next generation. It will not extend the solvency of Social Security by even a single day. In fact, to borrow a phrase, instead of making sure that Social Security is solvent, this budget resolution makes sure it goes broke on schedule.”