[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 69 (Friday, May 9, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H3863]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HERE REPUBLICANS GO AGAIN

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, here they go again. 
When they first took office, the Bush administration said we needed a 
big tax cut to get the economy moving again. They gave us a big tax 
cut, financed out of the deficit, financed out of Social Security; and 
we lost 1.7 million jobs since that tax cut. We have lost 2.5 million 
jobs since the Bush administration took office.
  This morning they want to give us another trillion dollar tax cut to 
create more jobs, and the fact of the matter is that most of it will be 
financed out of the Social Security system and out of the deficit. When 
is this Nation going to learn that these people do not have a plan? 
They have yet to create a single new job; but what they will do in this 
tax cut is for those families earning over a million dollars, they will 
get $93,000 back next year in tax cuts. For the average family, they 
will get $217 back. In fact, over the next decade those families will 
take more in tax cuts than 90 percent of the population.
  Mr. Speaker, this is once again showering hundreds of billions of 
dollars on the wealthiest people in the country while 2.5 million 
people are out of work, while 4 million people have given up looking 
for work, and three people are looking for every job that exists in 
this country. The Republicans and President Bush owe America better.

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