[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 144 (Wednesday, September 26, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H10906]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    HOUSE DEMOCRATS ARE MEETING AMERICA'S PRIORITIES IN A FISCALLY 
                           RESPONSIBLE MANNER

  (Mr. HARE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HARE. Mr. Speaker, the new Democratic Congress is taking our 
Nation in a new direction by putting the needs of the American people 
first and making long delayed investments in our future.
  Over the summer, the House passed every single one of its 
appropriations bills for the upcoming year. Our appropriation 
priorities will better protect the Nation against terrorism by 
including 3,500 more firefighting grants and better protect our 
neighborhoods against violent crime by investing in 12,000 new police 
officers.
  We also invest in community health centers so that they can provide 
essential health care services to more than 1 million additional 
Americans. We beefed up cancer and other lifesaving medical research so 
that we can continue to look for cures for these devastating diseases.
  And we make the largest investment in veterans health care funding in 
the history of the Veterans Administration, ensuring that our veterans 
get the health care they are entitled to.
  Mr. Speaker, we once again invest in priorities that were neglected 
by the old Republican Congress, and we do it in a fiscally responsible 
way following pay-as-you-go policies that will lead us to no new 
deficit spending.

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