Ron Kind: “I thank my friend. That is what is so onerous behind this legislation. They have become very clever at piling up debt…”

“I thank my friend. That is what is so onerous behind this legislation. They have become very clever at piling up debt, convincing the American people we have a spending problem; yet the very programs they decide to target in their budget resolutions are those programs that provide upward income mobility for all Americans. I am a product of that. I am a kid who went on to school with Pell grants, with student loans, with the workstudy program. There is no way I want to be a Member of Congress that is going to pull up the ladder behind me and say ``tough luck'' to the lower income classes of this country. That is what this bill leads to, and I encourage my colleagues to oppose it.”