Congressman Al Green Criticizes House Republican Budget Proposal

On March 19, 2013, Congressman Al Green offered the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives on the House Republican Budget Proposal:

"Mr. Chairman, I thank the ranking member for the time.

"Mr. Chairman, depending on your point of view, there is something in this budget for you to like and to love. If you like repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with nothing, then you love this budget.

"If you like having senior citizens pay more for their pharmaceuticals in the twilight of life, then you love this budget.

"If you like having 26-year-olds and under come off of the insurance policies that they're currently on with their parents, then you love this budget.

"If you like the notion that health care should become wealth care in the richest country in the world, where one out of every 100 persons is a millionaire, then you love this budget.

"If you like the whole concept of having voucher care, as opposed to Medicare, then you really love this budget.

"My dear friends, I neither love it nor like it. I'm against it, and I won't vote for it."