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Durbin: Budget Out of Touch with Real Need of America

Date: Nov. 3, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending Housing and Property


DURBIN: BUDGET OUT OF TOUCH WITH REAL NEED OF AMERICA

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today issued the following statement after the Senate approved the Budget Reconciliation bill. Durbin voted against the legislation:

"This budget has the wrong priorities. It rewards the special interests instead of standing up for American families."

"It increases the burdens on seniors and farmers; cuts health care spending; reduces the availability of affordable housing; and cuts environmental protections by allowing drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."

"Democrats believe that the Senate can do better. We should be making health care more affordable for those who need it most, not less affordable. We should be strengthening our environmental protections, not shrinking them. We should be working to reduce the burden of high energy prices, not rewarding Big Oil."

"We need to make this country work for everyone, not just the privileged, well-connected few."

http://durbin.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=248284&&

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