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Pelosi: Budget is a Blueprint for the Future

Date:4/29/2009

WASHINGTON, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this morning in strong support of the final House-Senate budget resolution for fiscal year 2010. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 233 to 193 and is expected to be approved by the Senate later today. It does not require the signature of the President. Below are the Speaker's remarks:

"Madam Speaker, it is indeed an honor to call Mr. Spratt a colleague. We say that from time to time about our Members, but never is it truer than in the case of Chairman John Spratt of South Carolina. He is a gentleman who has brought the values of our country, the principles of our great democracy to bear on writing a budget.

"Because of his leadership, today for the first time in many, many years, we have a President's budget on the floor that is a statement of our national values. What is important to us as a nation is reflected in this budget. It is a very happy day for our country, Mr. Spratt, because of your leadership.

"I thank all of the members of the budget committee for their hard work, expressing their views, coming forth with a budget that is a blueprint for the future. I also want to commend our conferees -- Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro and Congressman Allen Boyd for assisting in the conference process.

"Starting at the beginning of this year, this Congress passed a stimulus package to take our country in a new direction. Since that time -- we have been on a sprint to create jobs, to lower the deficit, to cut taxes for the American people. This blueprint -- this budget -- is a bookend to that stimulus package. It is though, the foundation for how we go forward into the future.

"In the first 100 days, it enables us to make the claim with these two pieces of legislation and bills that have come in between -- for example the SCHIP -- the children's hea
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