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Our Budget Vote

Floor Speech

Date: March 31, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs Government Budget and Spending

Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, President Barack Obama assumed the presidency with the United States in a condition worse than any President in the history of our Republic. He came in with problems on every single front, not the least of which was our budget.

I am very pleased to be supporting the President's budget. It includes over $2 trillion worth of budget savings through ending what at one point cost us more than $10 billion a month, which was the war in Iraq; we are ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship their jobs overseas; and, asking those who make more than $250,000 a year and have had huge tax cuts over the past 8 years to pay just a little bit more.

This budget cuts taxes for 95 percent of American workers, it cuts the deficit in half in over 4 years, and ends an era of irresponsibility and budget gimmicks. So I am proud, Mr. Speaker, to support the President's budget.


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