{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://clyburn.house.gov/press-release/clyburn-floor-statement-ryan-budget-and-democratic-alternative", "Clyburn Floor Statement On Ryan Budget and Democratic Alternative", "2013-03-20", "2013", "2013-03", "Democrat", "House", "SC", "James Clyburn", "C000537", "clyburn.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON\u2014 Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn today delivered remarks on the House floor in opposition to the Ryan budget and in support of the Democratic alternative.\u00a0 Following are his remarks as prepared for delivery:\n\u201cMr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to the Ryan budget.\n\u201cThe Ryan budget ignores the expressed will of the American people and doubles down on the \u2018you\u2019re on your own\u2019 Republican platform that the voters soundly rejected just a few short months ago.\u00a0 Rather than taking a fair and balanced approach to deficit reduction, the Ryan budget will kill millions of jobs, slash needed investments, raise taxes on working families and create big new tax breaks for the wealthiest few.\n\u201cThe Ryan budget will block grant Medicaid, voucherize Medicare and rip up the safety net that\u2019s at the heart of the social contract in this country.\u00a0 There are many words that can be used to describe the Ryan budget, but the one word that does NOT describe the Ryan budget is \u2018balanced.\u2019\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased the Democratic alternative and the CBC budget both include versions of a proposal I have worked on for several years called the 10-20-30 plan.\u00a0 The purpose of 10-20-30 is to target federal funds to communities that have experienced persistent poverty.\u00a0 Specifically, this proposal targets 10 percent of funding to neglected communities where 20 percent of the population has lived in poverty for 30 years or more\n\u201cThe 10-20-30 plan was originally signed into law as a part of the Recovery Act.\u00a0 The Recovery Act\u2019s 10-20-30 provision has proven successful in steering needed rural development funds into neglected communities for water and sewer and economic development projects.\u00a0 It\u2019s time to build on this success and expand 10-20-30.\n\u201cI am also pleased that all of the Democratic budget substitutes reject the austerity-for-working-families plan that the Republicans are proposing.\u00a0 Democrats will honor our commitment to senior citizens and invest in a brighter future.\u00a0 The Van Hollen budget alternative will create jobs now, and that\u2019s the tried and true way to achieve deficit reduction.\u201d\nClick here to watch the video of the\u00a0Floor Statement.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://clyburn.house.gov/press-release/clyburn-floor-statement-ryan-budget-and-democratic-alternative"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7032840512692928, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}