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“SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4274 on June 15, 2011.
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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT
(Ms. BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
Ms. BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest last night on the debate pertaining to cutting funds for children and women with the Department of Agriculture. And I'm greatly disturbed by the assertion that we should do that and cut programs for senior citizens and the disabled because of the budgetary problems that we're having here in Washington.
Yes, we're having problems; but those problems did not start 18 months ago. Those problems have been going on for a very long time. And we're making decisions. And when we voted--not I--in December to give billionaires and millionaires $780 billion and then in June and April you say you don't have money for pension checks and you don't have money for senior citizens and you don't have money for children and babies, it's a mispriority.
And for people to get on this floor and constantly talk about the recovery and the number of jobs, well, I want to submit just for the record the number of jobs that were saved in Florida and Georgia and other places because of the Recovery Act.
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