Betty Sutton: “In a document released March 28, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated: ``Some are claiming that the budget…”

“In a document released March 28, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated: ``Some are claiming that the budget plan adopted last week by the House Budget Committee, which the full House is expected to vote on this week, would constitute `the largest tax increase in history.' This claim is incorrect. The House plan does not include a tax increase.'' That is what the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities stated. Mr. Speaker, last November the American people made it clear they are ready for a government that will be fiscally responsible. This Nation spoke loud and clear when it put a new party in power in Congress, asking for responsibility and a new direction in our fiscal priorities. Education, health care, the care of our children and our seniors and our veterans, these are issues that Americans are concerned about. Our budget restores common sense to our national spending and sanity to our national priorities. It restores the President's attempt to cut children's health care programs and Community Block Grants, and it puts forth the single largest increase in veterans spending in our Nation's history, and not a moment too soon. It funds math and science programs for our kids, and programs like Head Start and Pell Grants that provide access to education that so many of our children need. And this budget concerns itself with the need to create jobs and build a bright economic future.”