(Mr. TONKO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Rep. Paul Tonko
Mr. Speaker, here we go again. It's deja vu all over again.
Simply put, the Ryan-Romney Republican budget ends Medicare. AARP said: ``The proposal lacks balance and jeopardizes the health and economic security of older Americans.''
The budget we will consider this week fails the test of balance, fairness, and shared responsibility. It showers the few Americans that are the very wealthy with an average tax cut of at least $150,000, while preserving giveaways to Big Oil companies and Wall Street CEOs.
What's worse is that all these tax breaks would be paid for by ending Medicare and cutting education, basic research, and new sources of energy.
Obviously, this budget rejects all of our American values.
This is not the first time the other side has tried to end Medicare. They tried it last year, too. The American people rejected the Ryan proposal then and they will reject this latest attack on our middle class now.
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