Speech #1050034891

This budget proposes $115 billion in Medicare savings. but does absolutely nothing to fundamentally restructure the ailing program. In fact. the biggest reform is an accounting change that we condemned as a "gimmick" just last yearand rightly so. Worse yet. the plan wipes out many of the real reforms we enacted in last years welfare reform legislation by restoring welfare payments to legal immigrants and expanding Food Stamp work slots. Fact 6: The budget deal protects additional money for Presidential priorities. but no programs are terminated. While the resolution guarantees that spending will go up for programs such as Head Start and bilingual education. there is not one word about reforming or eliminating arts funding.