[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         STOP DEFICIT SPENDING

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. I take some delight in listening to my friend from 
Texas rail about the government not being able to spend money it 
doesn't have. Yet these Republicans are the people who have been 
spending money the government didn't have for years, putting a war in 
Iraq on our children's credit card, putting massive tax cuts in place 
to benefit a tiny portion of the tax-paying public and ignoring the 
needs of the vast majority. They have been on a spending binge under 
the Bush administration and Republican control to fund special 
interests and ``bridges to nowhere.''
  We invite anybody to look at the proposals that have been advanced. 
It is to stimulate the economy, to help stop the economic free-fall in 
our States, to shore up the problems in States from Michigan to Oregon 
to Florida, to keep the promises that the President made during the 
campaign, and most of all, to stop the wasteful spending for special 
interests and focus it on the taxpayers who need it the most.

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