Last week the President broke his campaign promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the number one cause of global warning. The President also is pushing to open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge and new national monuments for oil drilling and he has signaled that he wants to abandon our national commitment to ban logging in pristine forest areas. There is nothing compassionate about this Administration is environmental agenda. It's reckless, it's wrong and it has to stop. My opposition to President Bush's tax cut proposal is based upon my concern that it is so large that it will deprive the Federal government of the revenue needed to fund critical social programs and will prevent us from making needed investments in education, health care, and the preservation of Social Security.
Republicans put tax cuts first before everything else, even before writing a budget.
Of course not. In essence, that's what the Republican leaders are doing by forcing more than a trillion dollars in tax cuts through the House before any budget has been approved, or even discussed. Democrats want to enact fair and responsible tax cuts in the context of a budget that makes sure resources will be there to preserve Social Security and Medicare, pay down our debt, and invest in vital priorities such as education, a prescription benefit for seniors, and better pay for members of our armed forces. George W. Bush seems to agree with all of these Democratic priorities. At his address to a joint session of Congress last week, President Bush was the Candy Man.