[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 111 (Thursday, July 12, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H7660-H7661]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       DEMOCRATS SETTING RECORDS

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Americans love to compete and to set records. In fact, 
people all over the world record their records in the Guinness Book of 
World Records. But there are some kinds of records called Darwin Awards 
for foolish behavior where people eliminate themselves by doing 
something unusual. One man took a pistol and decided to rob a gun store 
and got shot.
  The Democrats are not using a pistol, but they have been setting some 
records. They have just set one this year, that is, the largest tax 
increase

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in the history of this country. It comes out to about $290-some-
billion. But that means to the average household a $3,000 tax increase. 
What household can absorb a $3,000 tax increase in just 1 year alone?
  Unfortunately, that is not the only record being set by the 
Democrats. They have doubled that record in terms of how much money 
they have spent, over $800 billion, which would come to $6,000 per 
family. American people would be better if we didn't set records like 
that.

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