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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2013

Floor Speech

By: Ed Markey
By: Ed Markey
Date: March 29, 2012
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Defense Government Budget and Spending

The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union had under consideration the bill (H. Con. Res. 112) establishing the budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2013 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2014 through 2022:

Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Chair, the Republican budget reads like ``The Hunger Games''--forcing American families to compete for survival against a plutonium plutocracy. The Republican budget cuts Medicare. It cuts Medicaid. It cuts Pell Grants.

Yet, at the same time, their budget calls for more spending on the weapons of last century's Cold War. More nuclear bomb-making plants. More nuclear missiles. More nuclear subs.

Their budget fails to address the needs of the elderly, the children, the sick, and the most vulnerable. It makes no sense. It is insane.

The CPC budget includes my legislation, the Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures Act--the SANE Act. SANE will save $100 billion over the next 10 years by reducing nuclear weapons spending. The CPC and the SANE Act puts people ahead of plutonium.

I urge my colleagues to join me and vote for the CPC ``Budget for All''.


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