[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 7 (Thursday, January 17, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E45]
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                        ECONOMIC GROWTH PACKAGE

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                            HON. MIKE PENCE

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 17, 2008

  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, one year into a liberal Democratic majority 
in Congress the economy is struggling. The big government policies of 
the new majority are taking their toll. High gasoline prices, the sub-
prime market crisis in housing, and news that inflation is at a 
seventeen year high, all demand a bipartisan stimulus package in the 
next thirty days. Congress must act; and must act swiftly.
  I submit that Congress must focus economic relief on the kind of 
stimulus that will create jobs and growth for small businesses and 
family farmers. The real antidote to the impending downturn is more 
money in the hands of the wage-earner, and the wage-payer. This is, and 
always has been, the pathway to prosperity in the American economy.

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