[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 7, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H41]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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             MAINTAINING AMERICA'S PROSPERITY AND DEMOCRACY

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. When the House last met in December, in the dying days 
of the 110th Congress, thanks to the leadership of the Speaker and of 
the chairman of Financial Services and of the people of this body, we 
sent a rescue package for the auto industry over to the Senate. 
Unfortunately, the Senate did not allow it to come up for a vote. 
Fortunately, President Bush and the administration offered and extended 
a bridge loan to the auto industry to keep the hardworking men and 
women employed and to keep America's manufacturing sector vital. We did 
not rejoice.
  We understand that restructuring is necessary and that it will be 
painful. It will intensify and it will continue, but we also vow to do 
what we need to do to ensure that America keeps its engine of 
prosperity and its arsenal of democracy. We will prove the doubters 
wrong.

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