mr. speaker , there is really nothing terribly , terribly wrong with this resolution . 
talking about a need to invest in greater innovation , research and education , certainly makes sense . 
the vexing thing for me is this republican congress and white house has systematically unfunded almost all of those items . 
we heard the numbers from my colleagues , and i will not go back over them , except to remind folks of the recent debate we had over the appropriations bills . 
repeatedly , throughout the debate , as democrats talked about spending more money on a variety of different items , the republican appropriators said , you know , this is the money we have , this is the best we can do with what we have . 
well , let us look at the decisions that left us in the position where `` this is what we have. '' one of the consequences of those decisions is we do not have enough money to fund the research , education and innovation that is necessary . 
all of the items that are ticked off , the national science foundation , the national institutes of health , no child left behind , we all know what they are . 
we know how important in the global economy innovation , research , education and skills training is . 
yet the programs that fund those vital needs , vital needs particularly for blue-collar , middle-class and lower-class workers , are consistently cut , reduced , not funded like they should be because of the budget decisions of this congress . 
part of it certainly is the tax cut . 
that has been the decision of this congress ; supply-side tax cuts for people making a lot of money at the expense of all of these programs we are talking about today . 
it is incredibly vexing to hear the republican majority stand up and talk about how much they care about these programs . 
at a minimum , i wish they would make a choice , they would say : supply-side tax cuts for people making a lot of money , that is what we support ; that is what we are going to do . 
that being done , we can not afford to do these other things , and that is okay . 
but to stand up today and say that you care about them when you have created a budget environment where they can not be funded is disingenuous , to say the least . 
if these are priorities , then let us change the budget . 
and it is not just tax cuts . 
we can look at the spending decisions of the last 6 years that have seen massive increases in overall federal spending while , at the same time , underfunding these critical items . 
the budget priorities of the republican congress are responsible , and an empty `` sense of congress '' resolution is not going to fix that . 
