Gerry Connolly: “Yesterday by one vote the Republican Budget Committee passed a fend-for-yourself budget that gives Darwinism a bad name.…”

“Yesterday by one vote the Republican Budget Committee passed a fend-for-yourself budget that gives Darwinism a bad name. It breaks a bipartisan compromise not even a year old. It voucherizes Medicare, in effect jeopardizing health care for tens of millions of American seniors. It essentially guts Medicaid and jeopardizes nursing home care for millions more. It block-grants the safety net programs led by food stamps, threatening to reverse decades-old progress in lowering poverty and malnutrition rates in America. This is a budget that needs to be rejected, Madam Speaker. It is a budget that would make Charles Darwin blush. ____________________”