Marsha Blackburn: “The President filed his budget yesterday, and what a budget it is. It is going to increase spending by $791…”

“The President filed his budget yesterday, and what a budget it is. It is going to increase spending by $791 billion--that is right, billion with a ``b.'' You would think we had all this money to spend. And when you look a little deeper, you see that the priorities are all askew in this budget. I want to point out just one to my colleagues, and it deals with the Tennessee National Guard and the way they are being adversely impacted by what this budget is bringing to bear, what the President would want to bring to bear. The Tennessee Guard has flown the Kiowa Warrior helicopters all throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. They used them in our natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the Tennessee flood. And today, due to that budget that I have mentioned that the President filed yesterday, he would like to put them on the chopping block. All 30 Kiowa helicopters, 692 soldiers, and 113 workers are all on the chopping block. Let's talk about priorities. It is our responsibility in the House to get this right. ____________________”