*2015 Budget
MESSAGE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC WHIP
This week, I was disappointed that the Republican-led House of Representatives passed an extreme budget that cuts investments in our nation’s future, including education, infrastructure, and research. Additionally, this harmful budget would repeal the Affordable Care Act for the 53rd time, eliminating health care benefits and important patient protections for millions of Americans. It also ends the Medicare guarant
As the House prepares to vote tomorrow on the Ryan budget, we present you with a roundup of recent articles highlighting just how disastrous it would be for our economy, for the most vulnerable in our society, for our long-term fiscal outlook – and for Republicans themselves:
“I thank the Ranking Member for yielding. This Republican budget, as I've said before, is an exercise in how not to achieve fiscal sustainability.
“Madame Chair, I want to first congratulate Nydia Valazquez of New York on the extraordinary leadership she has shown on behalf of entrepreneurs and small businesses and medium-sized businesses and yes, even large businesses in our country.
“Thank you very much for being here. I am pleased to be joined by my colleagues, the Ranking Member of the Science and Technology Committee, the Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee, and Mr. Heck, who is a representative of the freshman class, but who himself was a very high ranking leader in the legislature in Washington state, a very successful business man, who knows a lot about what we’re talking about, and we’re pleased to have him here as well.
“I thank the Ranking Member for yielding. I would first observe, Mr. Speaker, that the American people ought to lament another opportunity missed. An opportunity to come together and adopt a big, balanced plan for investment and balance in our fiscal system in America.
This week, the House will vote on the extreme House Republican budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015.
Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) discussed the extreme Republican budget and the success of the Affordable Care Act on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and Fox News' "Fox & Friends" this morning.
Today, House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (CA). chair of the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity, sent a letter to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office requesting an analysis of how the extreme House Republicans budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2015 would impact poverty in the country
MESSAGE FROM THE DEMOCRATIC WHIP
This week, House Republicans unveiled their budget proposal for fiscal year 2015. Instead of laying being a serious and honest attempt to invest in our priorities and return our nation to fiscal sustainability, their budget is no more than an exercise in partisan messaging.