House Proceeding 04-02-09 on Apr 2nd, 2009 :: 0:02:55 to 0:06:25
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John A. Boehner: until the house is in order. the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. ryan: madam chair, at this time i'd like to yield one minute to mr. boehner. the chair: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: let me thank my colleague from wisconsin for yielding. i think all of us know that our economy is in big t

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Speech By: John A. Boehner

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John A. Boehner: american families are struggling, small businesses are struggling, unemployment is increasing. and one of the hall marks of being an american is that each generation was proud of the fact that they were leaving for the next generation a better country with more opportunities, better than what they had. a lot of americans today don't

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John A. Boehner: believe that that will happen. but we can go back to the greatest generation and the greatest generation during world war ii were called the greatest generation because those men and women stood up and fought more america and did what they had to do so that their kids and grandkids could pursue the american dream. they made the tough choice to

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John A. Boehner: get involved, to go to war, to do what they had to do and as we look at this budget that we have in front of us, there are no tough choices the democrat plan to increase spending, to increase taxes and increase the debt makes no difficult choices. why? because when you just keep

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John A. Boehner: spending money, you don't have to make decisions. you just keep spending money. the fact is that if you look at this budget, it spends too much, it taxes too much and it puts too much debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids. if you look at the chart next to me, you can see this red line. and this red line indicates the

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John A. Boehner: amount of spending that we see in the plan offered by our democrat colleagues. the green line, as an example, will -- is suspending represented in -- is the spending represented in the republican alternative that does in fact spend less. but it's not just spending. when you look at the taxes in

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John A. Boehner: this bill, it will increase taxes several trillion dollars. that's with now, the majority wants to say, well, no that's not what the budget says. that's why i've described their budget as the bernie madoff budget because they tingered and hid all of the -- tinger -- tinkered and hid all of the

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John A. Boehner: serious proposals that they all have in mind to do. you know, they've talked about their cap and trade, their national energy tax, but you can't see it in here. and so let's just call it what it is. the bernie madoff budget because if you look at the other documents, they want to do cap and trade, which is a national energy tax, $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. they want to let all the tax

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John A. Boehner: cuts that were passed early in this decade, they want to allow them it all to expire. and even have other ideas to even bring back the death tax, a tax that is on top of taxes that were paid when you earned the money, capital gains taxes paid along the way and if you saved money and you did the responsible thing, when you die, we're going to come in and take

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John A. Boehner: half of it. now, this is unamerican. so we've got too much spending, way too many ideas about raisin the really tough part of this budget. we get to the debt.

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John A. Boehner: we actually do have to borrow money. the chinese, frankly, have been