Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2007

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2007 -- (House of Representatives - April 06, 2006)

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Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chairman, this budget contains massive deficits for our children and unaffordable tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans at the expense of middle-class families. Particularly damaging are the cuts to critical services in education, workforce development, health, veterans services, and environmental protection.

It fails to include an additional $7 billion so that in fact we can fund education and health and the other services in the same way that the Senate, by a vote of 73-27, voted a few weeks ago, funding for the Community Services Block Grant, Low-Income Heating Assistance, National Institutes of Health and Pell Grants, programs that touch virtually every community health center, hospital, school district, and employment center in the Nation.

Last week, I proposed an amendment that would restore this $7 billion when the Budget Committee met. It was rejected by this Republican majority on a party-line vote, and what we are left with are cuts that would cut cancer research by $40 million.

We tell our kids today, you need to have a post-secondary degree; you no longer have the luxury of just having a high school diploma because we exist in a global economy. What they will do is to eliminate more than 40 education programs, all Federal vocational and technical education programs. They freeze the Pell Grant.

Education has been about opportunity. They will deny the opportunity of our youngsters to be able to get a college education.

That is what this budget does. These are Republican priorities. They are not the American priorities. It is a misguided and it is an immoral budget, and we ought to support the Spratt substitute.

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