[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 61 (Thursday, April 17, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H2455]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PROMISE OF CLEANING UP WASHINGTON?

  (Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, I come today to the floor 
to point out something that's really already been pointed out in the 
press, and that is, as they say, that the Democrats, unfortunately, 
have horrifically failed as the majority party getting most anything 
done. Now, they made promises after promises to help the American 
people, and maybe it's no surprise that most of those promises have 
come to naught and have been broken.
  This is most evident by the recent Democrat budget. It includes a 
massive $683 billion tax increase which only further burdens our 
children, kills jobs, hurts small businesses, and basically just 
punishes the American family. And worst of all, this budget was created 
to finance wasteful spending and the special interests here in 
Washington.
  So what happened to all of those promises of cleaning up Washington 
and cutting spending? Well, it seems they simply got lost in the 
shuffle of all of their spending taxpayers' dollars.

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