[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 3 (Thursday, January 8, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H73-H74]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       MONUMENT TO PRESIDENT BUSH

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. In his last year, George Bush has constructed a monument 
to his Presidency that will last for generations to come. He not only 
doubled our national debt in 8 short years; as he goes out the door, 
he's

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leaving America with a $1.2 trillion deficit. That means we will borrow 
$3.2 billion a day, $2.2 million a minute. It's unfathomable. That 
legacy of profligacy based on trickle down and bailouts has brought our 
economy to its knees.
  It would have been one thing if he borrowed the money to rebuild our 
crumbling infrastructure, to build new schools to educate our kids, to 
give us a sustainable energy future. But, no, the money has been 
squandered in bailouts for Wall Street and an unnecessary war in the 
Middle East.
  And now it's up to us, this Congress, the Democrats, to give us a 
recovery package that will put Americans back to work and rebuild our 
country. We have to reject the policies of the Bush years. No more tax 
giveaways. Let's rebuild the infrastructure of this country, put people 
back to work, borrow the money for a purpose, not more waste.

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