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Pelosi: Budget is a Blueprint for the Future

Date:4/29/2009

lth insuring 11 million children in America -- the public lands bill -- the biggest conservation bill in many, many years -- other initiatives contained in our agenda in the past three months -- enable us to say that more has been done in this period of time for health care than in decades, since Medicare was passed in this Congress and signed into law.

"More has been done on education than in generations, since the GI bill was passed during World War II and even more than that. And in terms of energy, there's absolutely no contest. It's far out there in terms of breaking ground and reducing our dependence on foreign oil, creating new green jobs for a green future for America's economy, for honoring our moral responsibility to protect God's beautiful creation and to keeping our environment clean and healthy for our children.

"These three -- education, health care and energy -- are what the business community and other sectors of our community tell us are the investments that we must make in order to turn our economy around.

"So here we are today, with a budget before us that creates jobs, reduces taxes, and takes us on a path toward lowering the deficit. It does so in the most transparent way of any budget in our country's history and certainly in this Congress' history. And as it does so, it focuses on those three pillars of the Obama agenda -- education, health care and energy.

"In terms of energy, in this first 100 days, an article in Fortune magazine of April 29th states that, 'this is the greenest budget ever.' The Obama $3.55 trillion dollar budget is a one-two punch for clean-tech. It boosts funding for renewables while slashing tax breaks for fossil fuels. Obama's wish list -- now this is another organization called 'Climate Progress' -- 'Climate Progress' calls the Obama wish list the 'first sustainable budget in U.S. history.'

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