House Proceeding 02-06-07 on Feb 6th, 2007 :: 2:38:13 to 2:43:48
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Speech By: Walter B. Jones

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Walter B. Jones: yields back the balance of his time. mr. emanuel of illinois. mr. emanuel: address the house for one minute for five minutes. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore:

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Rahm Emanuel: so ordered. mr. eman well: mr. speaker, yesterday the president -- mr. emanuel: mr. speaker, yesterday the president submitted his budget to the united states congress and the country. in

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Speech By: Rahm Emanuel

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Rahm Emanuel: that budget the president made clear a number of priorities that i think are in direct opposition to the wishes and aspirations of the american people. most egregious in my view is that the

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Rahm Emanuel: president leaves in place a tax increase on the middle class families of this country. today about three million americans are affected by the alternative minimum tax. meant to tax only

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Rahm Emanuel: the superwealthy. this year alone it will reach 23 million middle class families across the country. and the only way the president accomplishes any of his goals is to leave in place a tax that

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Rahm Emanuel: was never intended by the congress or the president to affect middle class families much the democrats make a pledge to in fact deal with the alternative minimum tax this year so middle

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Rahm Emanuel: class families do not have a tax increase either this year, next year, or the following year. it has been consistently. but this is only one egregious misplaced priority in the president's budget.

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Rahm Emanuel: the other highlights. in addition to increasing taxes on the middle class, it cuts health care for seniors $100 billion over five years. $300 billion over 10 years. while we were dealing with the

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Rahm Emanuel: temperatures outside that are near freezing in my home area of chicago, below zero, it cuts home energy assistance to our seniors by 18%. it eliminates the cops program for community policing

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Rahm Emanuel: which is supported 120,000 police officers throughout the country. it goes forward in the president's desire to privatize social security. it cuts health care benefits for our returning veterans.

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Rahm Emanuel: forcing them to pay up to $750 to enter the health care for veterans. one of the best health care systems in the country. i don't think that's a welcome home mat that either our veterans

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Rahm Emanuel: from iraq and afghanistan deserve. it also has cuts to education. it underfunds leave no child behind by $15 billion. it cuts housing assistance for affordable housing with the returning again in

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Rahm Emanuel: relationship to our veterans, it cuts the funding for research into brain trauma research. which is so significant. one of the greatest injuries for our veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan

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Rahm Emanuel: have been the brain injuries that they have incurred there. first time ever we have gotten funding inside the pentagon for that area. it makes a cut. and then it doesn't deal with what

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Rahm Emanuel: we call earmarks here which as the president continues his earmarks in his budget. across the border from social security privatization to health care cuts in medicare and medicaid, to also not cutting

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Rahm Emanuel: children from their health care, to raising taxes on the middle class, in time and place from health care to taxes, to supporting our law enforcement community this budget makes the wrong priorities.

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Rahm Emanuel: . it is time to have a new direction and a change c13 it is time to have a new direction and a change here in the priorities in washington. in addition to all of that, while we have families

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Rahm Emanuel: not being able to get to their homes in the area of louisiana, mississippi, and the gulf coast, the president asked for an additional $245 billion for iraq and afghanistan. in every turn that we

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Rahm Emanuel: can, we have to right this ship that is wrong. most importantly in the area, a president's budget has relied on tax increases on middle-class families, cuts medicare and medicaid, asks for

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Rahm Emanuel: $245 billion in increased funding for iraq and afghanistan, cuts children from their health care, cuts heating assistance from our elderly. also cuts benefits for veterans. those are not the

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Rahm Emanuel: priorities of the american people. every president in the history of the country in a time of war has thought about how to invest in america. abraham lincoln in the height of the civil war had

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Rahm Emanuel: the land grant colleges. roosevelt in the height of the final two years of world war ii developed the g.i. bill of rights. during the right of the cold war, eisenhower saw the interstate

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Rahm Emanuel: system as a way to invest in america. kennedy, a man on the moon when we were facing down the soviet union. at every critical juncture when america was at war, a president thought about how

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Rahm Emanuel: to invest in america who turn this country's efforts overseas here at home to make this a stronger and better country. this is the first presidential budget that in time of war rather

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Rahm Emanuel: than looking for increases here on how to make america stronger, it looks for cuts in america. it looks for the areas of education, health care, veterans, and law enforcement to sacrifice while

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Rahm Emanuel: we increase our investments in iraq and afghanistan. if you look at the history of every time there has been a period of america's engagement around the world militarily, every president has

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Rahm Emanuel: looked to invest her at home to make america stronger. this is the first budget that leaves america weaker in a time of military engagement. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the remainder

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Rahm Emanuel: of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time expires. mr. paul of texas. mr. paul: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, if the president were to ask me for advice on foreign affairs,

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Ron Paul: this is what i would say. don't do it, mr. president. it's a bad idea. there's no need for it. there's great danger in doing it. america is against it, and congress should be. the united nations

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Speech By: Ron Paul