[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H7223]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                POLITICAL PROFITEERING ON STIMULUS BILL

  (Mr. BROWN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, the Republican-leaning USA Today 
writes about the so-called stimulus bill. They write, ``The House takes 
up today a special wartime stimulus bill that is little more than good 
old-fashioned special interest giveaway. The Republican House has 
decided to repay corporate patrons for their years of campaign support. 
The House lavishes tax benefits,'' USA Today says, ``on just about 
everyone with a lobbyist. Companies get 70 percent of the tax cuts in 
2002, and some of these breaks are permanent. These are times,'' USA 
Today says, ``that require everyone to put aside petty self-interest 
and everyday horse trading for the country's good. Yet House Republican 
leaders showed an unwillingness to do that with the refusal to consider 
federalizing the Nation's airport security system. Now they are at it 
again with their brazen attempt to use the current crisis to please 
well-heeled special interests.''
  Mr. Speaker, excessive partisanship at this difficult time in our 
Nation's history is bad enough, but this kind of political profiteering 
by House Republicans is down right shameful.

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