[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H5243]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  JUNE 13, 2003, RUBBER STAMP DAY ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S TAX LEGISLATION

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I take the floor right now to remind 
Members to bring their rubber stamp tomorrow. The rubber-stamp Congress 
will be in session.
  They are meeting right now up in the Committee on Rules, and they are 
dropping an $80 billion tax bill that never went to the Committee on 
Ways and Means I sit on. Nobody has ever seen it, but it is being 
dropped here all of a sudden because the majority leader finally quit 
resisting what the Senate wanted to do. We are going to run it out of 
here. The chairman did not even go upstairs to explain the bill, they 
just sent it up there, they greased it, and it is coming down here. 
Everybody should remember, bring this stamp.
  This stamp said ``Official Rubber Stamp. I approve of everything 
George Bush does,'' signed: The Member. That is what we ought to have 
tomorrow, because we are going to run another $80 billion out, put 
people more in debt, and that is what we consider legislation in this 
one-party system.
  Do not forget, Members should bring their rubber stamp tomorrow 
morning.

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