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On this budget, we have the starkest choice we've had in a long time -- tax cuts for the wealthiest versus food stamps and Medicaid.


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Now is not the time to further tax cuts for millionaires which would cost $32 billion a year or more...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN The sad truth is all of this is to pay for tax cuts to for the wealthiest people in our country.
NANCY PELOSI The persistent and growing high level of child poverty reflects conscious and misguided choices, ......
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic ...
BILL DELAHUNT The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.
FRANKLIN RAINES This administration has no plan, no vision, no answer beyond simplistic knee-jerk tax cuts for the w...
DICK GEPHARDT We can't just talk dollars when you talk about these cuts. These are impacting real people. Bush's b...
DEBORAH WEINSTEIN If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps? ... This is the meanest cut of...
DAVID SCOTT At a time when millions are displaced and seeking federal and state assistance, we believe it is ina...
GORDON SMITH In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only wa...
BARACK OBAMA We're facing huge demand increases for food stamps and Medicaid assistance, ... At a time when so mu...
PAT ROBERTS Many of those people were barely surviving before Hurricane Katrina, and the reason they were barely...
BRAD WOODHOUSE Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spendi...
STEVE CHABOT We can choose to help the people who are affected by Katrina, or we can give tax cuts to the wealthi...
NANCY PELOSI Right now, given the budget they've got for the next five years, it seems to me it's Apollo on food ...
WES HUNTRESS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We were promised that if we gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the benefits would trick...
TOM DASCHLE It appears that the Democrats have had control in the state, county and local level for some time no...
JOE SINAGRA As we celebrate Black History Month, it is especially troubling that President Bush would release a ...
AMAYA SMITH Senator Santorum's record of voting for Medicare and Medicaid cuts as well as his championing of Soc...
LARRY SMAR Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific ...
TIM BISHOP They advertise on the radio for food stamps!
BILL O'REILLY So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we...
JIM WALLIS For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER A bunch of problems that we have ahead of us are largely because of these tax cuts. They are very co...
MARK ZANDI The last year we had to vote on and make some very, very severe cuts in the budget, and that was har...
JACK JACKSON Not only will these tax cuts - mainly for the super wealthy and big corporations - wipe out the savi...
DIANE FARRELL To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing ...
TOM ALLEN Weve had some moral victories this season. Weve had one-goal losses against teams that did a number ...
EVA LANG Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get b...
HANK JOHNSON This vote [Medicaid amendment] is a rare bright spot in what for the most part is a pretty dismal bu...
JAMES JEFFORDS We're very unhappy about the impact this is going to have on Delaware. The student loan cuts, the cu...
JACKIE LEE For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER We had such a thick amount of ice on the trees this time. Last time, it seemed like there was more i...
BRANDON BROWN We must do what is necessary do help the victims of this terrible tragedy, but we should make sure i...
JOE LIEBERMAN It reveals that the tax cut is so big it gobbles up virtually the entire available surplus, forcing ...
RICHARD GEPHARDT We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in Augu...
MITCH MCCONNELL The budget deficit is on the radar again due to the emergency spending packages and the lack of any ...
ASHRAF LAIDI In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my c...
JACKIE SPEIER Despite the tax cuts passed by the federal government, Americans will spend more on taxes than they ...
SCOTT HODGE This is a very strange appropriations year. We are dealing with a surplus and budget cuts. The quest...
DAVID HAMILTON It would appear that with revenue collection exceeding budget this fiscal year, additional tax relie...
COLEN GARROW The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare stat...
THOMAS SOWELL It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS If Republicans were to regain control of the Senate, the probabilities of some major tax cuts would ...
PAUL KASRIEL We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, bu...
CHARLES CARRIER We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL Our budget maximizes the tax cuts we can afford while remaining fiscally conservative. It is an hone...
CHARLES STENHOLM It focuses predominately on middle income tax cuts for education, and for child care and for savings...
ROBERT RUBIN Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so...
CHRISTINE PELOSI Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going ...
MIKE HUCKABEE We don't anticipate draconian cuts elsewhere in the budget.
HEATHER HEDRICK We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut...
JOHN SPRATT The majority of the seniors who receive CSFP food boxes do not access food stamps. Most of them cann...
JAN PRUITT We have been discussing the need for a transportation study internally for a long time. In the last ...
DAVE PARKINSON Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have...
DAVE CHECKETTS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Clearly, this is fraud. Food stamps were for food. They're not for booze or cigarettes or anything l...
LYNN KIPPAX John Kerry has fought for middle-class tax relief and has proposed new middle-class tax cuts in this...
DAVID WADE The project is over now; they had no choice. It's been dragging on for a long time and this project ...
CHRISTINE LOH We had no choice. Our federal appropriation this year from Congress has a requirement for a 'signifi...
MARC MAGLIARI [And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cut...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS First and foremost, we believe in tax cuts,
JOHN KASICH And we can't have that completely counteracted by a big, big tax increase by not making the current ...
DAVID VITTER I find hard to believe we are having this hearing today to consider $10 billion in cuts to Medicaid,...
TOM ALLEN Community pharmacy has worked with state Medicaid programs to help implement cost savings and provi...
BRUCE ROBERTS Community pharmacy has worked with state Medicaid programs to help implement cost savings and provid...
BRUCE ROBERTS Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnar...
HANK COX This bill is the largest raid on student aid in history. At a time when millions of American familie...
GEORGE MILLER There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cu...
TOM DASCHLE If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the ...
THERESA MAY In his budget, President Bush has given trillions away in a tax cut that favors the wealthiest but h...
TERRY MCAULIFFE The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
MAYA MACGUINEAS Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN When the Gulf War happened, spending fell immediately thereafter. You had collapse of communism, and...
JOSEPH NADOL The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment ...
JAMES JEFFORDS It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS Not too many things have happened (on the budget during the British presidency), ... We had one bila...
JAROSLAW PIETRAS The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'
NIGER INNIS The Bush administration proposes to cut seniors' meals and nutrition for infants while pushing tax c...
GREG SPEETER Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super...
JOE CONASON With the budget cuts, we felt there was a real need for an organization to focus on fund-raising pro...
JANET BERRY There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will ...
STEVE MNUCHIN One of the big stories coming out of this is the inability to get anything done in the next two year...
GREG VALLIERE The Senate is clearly dragging its feet on spending reform. Some senators have called for instead re...
BRIAN RIEDL Educators and school personnel work on the front lines of childhood obesity, but every day they face...
DEAN ORNISH We have reduced sales tax on food. Now we want it eliminated.
JOE MANCHIN There is an effort to reduce the Medicaid cuts to the beneficiaries.
CARL SCHMID Community pharmacy has worked with state Medicaid
programs to help implement cost savings and ...
BRUCE ROBERTS This is the strongest appearance by German cinema that we have had for a long time.
DIETER KOSSLICK This [budget cuts] is part of a reoccurring problem under the Lula government.
EDUARDO ROCHE That's a critical part of this conversation. We understand that this is the first of two vacancies o...
RICHARD DURBIN We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl...
HERMAN CAIN This is a really difficult time for the Food Services Department. Especially since, at the beginning...
BETH GLITT The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment ...
JIM JEFFORDS I am concerned that the new cuts in the FY '07 budget, especially the significant reductions in fund...
BERRIEN MOORE The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we sta...
AL FRANKEN It is a message. We are not interested in removing the sales tax on food.
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JIM MORRISON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH