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Burgess Owens: “The caring majority budget of the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Progressive Caucus meets the mandate that we…”

On the recordMay 16, 1996
The caring majority budget of the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Progressive Caucus meets the mandate that we produce a balanced budget. But this budget does not produce a murder of Medicaid. It does not reduce EITC or wipe out the summer youth employment programs. The budget is again balanced by eliminating corporate welfare and closing corporate tax loopholes. The Republican budget, on the other hand, continues in its extremism. The Republican budget is really not about money in the overall analysis. The Republican budget is about a destructive plan to destroy the New Deal programs and the great society programs. It wants to destroy safety net programs.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah
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Discussing the caring majority budget and contrasting it with the Republican budget.

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