John Spratt: “these charts were compiled by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel), and basically what he is trying to show here is…”

“these charts were compiled by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel), and basically what he is trying to show here is that we have a robust program of rebuilding and restoration ongoing in Iraq to the extent they can maintain anything there in the midst of that insurgency. For example, in terms of infrastructure, we have rehabilitated the Sweetwater Canal System, including repairs to the levees on the Tigris and Euphrates. On the other hand, we have cut $336 million from the Army Corps of Engineers, including funding for the levees on the Mississippi. We have rebuilt the Iraqi republican railway line. But in the United States there have been $2.5 billion in cuts in Amtrak, and the high-speed rail funding program has been eliminated. Community development, 3,120 community action projects completed in Iraq; $320 million cut from community services block grants in the United States. $470 million for the construction of housing and public buildings and civic centers for Iraqi citizens; in this country $250 million has been cut from community development block grants; and the President's budget cuts for public housing, the capital fund, have been cut by 10 percent even though it is now already deficient to meet the needs of the program. This chart shows the same thing. In Iraq, 110 primary health care centers built or renovated. In this country $10 billion has been cut or is being proposed to being cut from Medicaid.…”