House Proceeding 04-06-06 on Apr 6th, 2006 :: 4:05:42 to 4:08:48
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Speech By: Jeb Bradley

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Jeb Bradley: phase in that benefit for those that have a disability of 55%. the chairman: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. bradley: i thank the chair. the chairman: the gentleman from south carolina.

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Artur Davis: mr. spratt: mr. chairman, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from alabama, mr. davis. the chairman: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. davis: thank you, mr. chairman. people turn

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Speech By: Artur Davis

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Artur Davis: on the television and look at this institution and they wonder if we live in another world. they see us, or at least one of us going down the hallway giving high-fives after ending a career

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Artur Davis: in disgrace. they hear us obsessing on all kinds of things that don't matter to american people. and then they hear this budget debate. and they hear my friend from iowa, the chairman of

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Artur Davis: the committee for whom i have a great deal of respect, announce that under his budget everyone in america is a winner. they must wonder if we live in the same world. because i wonder if the

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Artur Davis: 13 1/2 million families in this country on medicaid who have to pay more money under last year's budget and more money under this year's budget to go to the doctor know that their winners.

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Artur Davis: i wonder if the veterans who are looking in cuts in years two through five of mr. nussle's budget think that they are winners. i wonder if the guards and reservists who will not get a fully

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Artur Davis: funded program wonder if they're winners. i wonder if the 45 million uninsured that mr. moran talked about, think that they're winners. i wonder if the 13 1/2 million children living in poverty think

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Artur Davis: that they're winners. the reality of this, mr. spratt, under this budget proposed by the chair, under the chairman's mark, some people win under this budget, people who have already been

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Artur Davis: winning and who've been winning for a long time, people who need a little bit of generosity and who have counted on a little bit of help from this city are not winners at all. and i remember,

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Artur Davis: mr. spratt, the first year i stood in this chamber as a relatively new member, when the president of the united states stood in the well and gave his state of the union. the one thing i remember

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Artur Davis: the president saying is, this president and this congress will not leave for other generations and for other congresses -- additional 30 seconds, mr. spratt. i'm sorry. additional 30 seconds, mr.

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Artur Davis: spratt. i guess my time is expired. spratt: yield an additional 15 seconds. mr. davis: i wonder if this occurred to them involving the old, the poor and the young, i wonder if he wanted to leave

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Artur Davis: this for another generation because the budget under mr. nussle leaves that. it leaves people under dueress and i think this budget is so fundamentally wrong and i yield back the balance

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Artur Davis: of my time. the chairman: the gentleman from iowa. >> let me suggest that it is an attitude about who our winners -- i certainly understand as the gentleman knows very profoundly that there are people

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Jim Nussle: who struggle in america, no question. but if you have an attitude about them being successful, about them being able to be successful, about them being able to be winners, without crawling to you,

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Speech By: Jim Nussle