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CONGRESSIONAL RECORDHOUSE H2729May 17, 2006
my colleagues to respectfully oppose
this well-intentioned but devastating
amendment to the American taxpayer
and to the American economy.Mr. CUMMINGS. Mr. Chairman, I rise today
in opposition to the FY 07 Republican BudgetResolution, H. Con. Res. 376, and in supportof the Congressional Black Caucus BudgetSubstitute.
Mr. Chairman, the Republican Budget sets arecordnot for balancing the budget, loweringthe deficit, or reducing our reliance on foreigndebtbut for exceeding the callousness evi-dent in President Bushs Budget for America.This compromise is devoid of direction, bal-ance and compassion.
It slashes K12 programs, job training,Community Development and Social ServicesBlock grants. It cuts veterans health care, thehomeland security function; mandatory studentloan spending and programs that help feedlow-income elderly, mothers and children.
The sad truth is that all of these cuts are thesacrificial lamb for tax cuts for the wealthiest1 percent of Americans. While many Ameri-cans are struggling under mounting debt andour country faces record deficits, this Budgetfunds another shameless $228 billion in taxcuts over 5 years.
The CBC Alternative Budget offers a real
budget for all Americans. It would balance thebudget, restore pay-as-you-go principles andrestore funding to critical programs; not bycreating deficits, but by rescinding the tax cutsfor those making over $200,000, eliminatingcorporate tax incentives and closing corporateloopholesall while eliminating waste, fraudand abuse.
I urge my colleagues to support the CBC Al-ternative Budget, which represents a return tofiscal discipline and responsibility and focusesour spending priorities on ALL Americans.
Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Chairman, Irise today in strong support of the Americanpeople, and the Congressional Black CaucusAlternative U.S. Budget (CBC Budget).
Mr. Chairman, budgets are moral docu-
ments. They reflect in a very real sense, ourdeep beliefs, our priorities, and define us as acommunity and as a Nation. So it is with deepregret that, as people of conscience, we mustrise against this attack on seniors, children,families, workers, and small businessagainstthe Majoritys budget which levies an enor-mous cost on the backs of the majority ofAmericans, in order to benefit the wealthiestfew among us.
Make no mistake about itthe majoritysbudget is a reckless and unfair attack on mostAmericans. It exacerbates our national debt inan age when we have already squandered a$5.6 trillion budget surplus and added $3 tril-lion in debt. It freezes important domestic pro-gramsreducing veterans health care by $6billion, education by $45.3 billion, public healthby $18.1 billion, and environmental protectionby $25.0 billionwhile also adding $6.8 billionin reconciliation cuts to mandatory programs.It is outrageous, Mr. Chairman, and its simplyun-American.
The CBC budget, which my office helped todraft, restores fiscal responsibility, balancingthe budget in 5 years and creating a surplusof $2.3 billion in FY 2011. It reduces the deficitby $313 billion and saves $10.5 billion in inter-est payments compared to the Majoritysbudget. And it adopts PAYGO rules, so thatCongress balances our checkbook just likemost Americans do.
The CBC Budget adds $32 billion in Edu-cation, Training, Employment and Social Serv-ices, $1 billion in Natural Resources and Envi-ronment; and $5.4 billion in Health programs.It increases security and critical investmentsfor our homeland, for our troops, for rail andport security grants, cargo and air cargoscreening equipment, first responders, federalair marshals, and the U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.
It funds juvenile justice and local law en-forcement programs, while restoring cuts in
veterans
health care, enhances benefits toour veterans in survivor benefits, medical andprosthetic research, long-term care, and men-tal health care. It provides $80 billion more foreducation and job training programs than theRepublic budget over 5 years, including fund-ing for No Child Left Behind and school con-struction. It funds the minority health initiative,child nutrition programs, job creation pro-grams, community and regional development,Gulf Coast reconstruction, scientific research,transportation, Medicare, and a variety ofgreatly-needed housing initiatives.
Mr. Chairman, we have a historic oppor-tunity before us, to help millions of Americans,and to turn back the clock on fiscal policies,the effect of which this Nation will endure for
decades. I urge my colleagues to join in con-science, and adopt this CBC Budget.The Acting CHAIRMAN. The ques-
tion is on the amendment offered by
the gentleman from North Carolina
(Mr. WATT).
The question was taken; and the Act-
ing Chairman announced that the noes
appeared to have it.
RECORDED VOTE
Mr. WATT. Mr. Chairman, I demand
a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic de-
vice, and there wereayes 131, noes 294,
not voting 7, as follows:
[Roll No. 155]
AYES131
Abercrombie
Ackerman
Andrews
Baca
Baldwin
Becerra
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardin
Carson
Cleaver
Clyburn
Conyers
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (FL)
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Ford
Frank (MA)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee
(TX)
Jefferson
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kaptur
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Lantos
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Lynch
Maloney
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McKinney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Millender-
McDonald
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Pelosi
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sabo
Sanchez, Linda
T.
Sanders
Schakowsky
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Slaughter
Solis
Stark
Tauscher
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Van Hollen
Velazquez
Visclosky
Wasserman
Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
NOES294
Aderholt
Akin
Alexander
Allen
Bachus
Baird
BakerBarrett (SC)
Barrow
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bass
Bean
Beauprez
Berkley
Berry
Biggert
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehlert
Boehner
Bonilla
Bonner
Bono
Boozman
Boren
BoswellBoucher
Boustany
Boyd
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (OH)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite,
Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Calvert
Camp (MI)
Campbell (CA)
Cannon
Cantor
Capito
Carnahan
Carter
Case
CastleChabot
Chandler
Chocola
Coble
Cole (OK)
Conaway
Cooper
Costa
Costello
Cramer
Crenshaw
Cubin
Culberson
Davis (CA)
Davis (KY)
Davis (TN)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeGette
DeLay
Dent
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Doolittle
Drake
Dreier
Duncan
Edwards
Ehlers
Emerson
English (PA)
Etheridge
Everett
Feeney
Ferguson
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Flake
Foley
Forbes
Fortenberry
Fossella
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
FrelinghuysenGallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gilchrest
Gillmor
Gingrey
Gohmert
Gonzalez
Goode
Goodlatte
Gordon
Granger
Graves
Green (WI)
Gutknecht
Hall
Harris
Hart
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
HayworthHefley
Hensarling
Herger
Herseth
Hobson
Hoekstra
Holden
Hooley
Hostettler
Hulshof
Hunter
Hyde
Inglis (SC)
Inslee
Israel
Issa
Istook
Jenkins
Jindal
Johnson (CT)
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, SamJones (NC)
Kanjorski
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (MN)
Kind
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kirk
Kline
Knollenberg
Kolbe
Kucinich
Kuhl (NY)
LaHood
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Latham
LaTourette
Leach
Lewis (CA)
Lewis (KY)
Linder
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lucas
Lungren, Daniel
E.
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
Marshall
Matheson
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McCrery
McHenry
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McMorris
Melancon
Mica
Michaud
Miller (FL)Miller (MI)
Miller, Gary
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moran (KS)
Murphy
Murtha
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Ney
Northup
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Obey
Osborne
Otter
Oxley
Paul
Pearce
PencePeterson (MN)
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (GA)
Pryce (OH)
Putnam
Radanovich
Ramstad
Regula
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Reyes
Reynolds
Rogers (AL)Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ros-Lehtinen
Ross
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Ryun (KS)
Salazar
Sanchez, Loretta
Saxton
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz (PA)
Schwarz (MI)
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shadegg
Shaw
Shays
Sherman
Sherwood
Shimkus
Shuster
Simmons
Simpson
Skelton
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Sodrel
Souder
Spratt
Stearns
Strickland
Sullivan
Sweeney
Tancredo
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