[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 84 (Friday, June 21, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H3780]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRAT PARTY IS PARTY OF ``WE NEED''

  (Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARY G. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat Party has 
been the party these days of ``we need.'' They continually come before 
the microphones and bash Republicans for supposedly spending the Social 
Security surplus; yet every time a Democrat walks to a microphone, they 
say ``we need'' a new program.
  All they are doing is taking and putting their hands in the pockets 
of working people, pulling out money, and spending it. It reminds me of 
a child who goes into a supermarket with a handful of change to spend. 
They are so happy and anxious to buy something. The problem is, they 
took the money from people who did not want to give it to them; and 
they should put the money back in the pockets of working people.
  Men and women in this country sacrifice time away from their 
children, they put their efforts and talents, and in many cases invest 
their own hard-earned money to benefit their family, to have a better 
life for their children; and all we do in this House is confiscate the 
hard-earned money that they earn to give it to people that we think 
deserve it better than they do.
  So let us stop calling them the Democratic Party and let us start 
calling them the ``we need'' party, because ``we need money for this 
program'' and ``we need money for that program.'' We need to be 
accountable to the American people and let them spend their money where 
they think it should best be spent.

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