[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 149 (Wednesday, October 3, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H11173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PRESIDENT BUSH'S PROPOSED VETO

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Madam Speaker, after running up more debt than the 42 
Presidents who preceded him, $3.2 trillion borrowed and spent, $9 
trillion total debt on the backs of the American people, presiding over 
a doubling of our international debt to more than $2.2 trillion, last 
week he proposed that we should borrow and spend another $190 billion 
on the war in Iraq, nearly 600 since he launched this unnecessary war.
  Subsidies to Big Oil, scandals about no-bid contracts, the President 
has rediscovered his long-lost, inner-fiscally conservative self. He's 
going to cast the first veto of his Presidency on a bill that would 
spend money, after an orgy of borrowing, spending and misspending on 
many dubious things. His target, 10 million low-income kids.
  The President stands on principle. Or is it he's standing on a pile 
of campaign cash contributed by the insurance industry to the 
Republicans?

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