On the recordJune 17, 2004
let me simply say that the idea that how much money is allocated to tax cuts is totally unrelated to how much money is left for homeland security or education or health care, the idea that those things are unrelated is absurd and preposterous. The fact is that unless the deficit is totally meaningless, and I do not think it is, then if you put all of your eggs into the tax cut basket, especially if you provide so much of them to people who make over $200,000 a year, then that indeed does have an effect on what is available for port security, what is available for the northern border security, what is available for first responders, and if the gentleman does not understand that, then I think we need to set up a new grade school on Capitol Hill.
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