The Budget

Floor Speech

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Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, it is time for
Congress to admit what people with common sense all across America have
known for years: mindless austerity just does not work. It doesn't grow
the economy, it does not add jobs, and it doesn't unleash anything
except misery.

The sequester was a bad idea from the start. The country needs to
embrace its can-do spirit, and Congress has to stop saying: ``Sorry, we
just can't.''

The President's budget is tailor-made to help hardworking middle
class families get ahead. It will invest in education, strengthen
workers' skills, provide tax relief for the middle class, and rebuild
our infrastructure. This is exactly what we need to build on the record
of the 58 months of job growth we are experiencing and to make sure
that everyone shares in the gains of our growing economy.

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