[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1252]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     SUPPORT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PLAN

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Madam Speaker, while Democrats in Congress are pushing 
for a recovery package to put Americans back to work, the recovery is 
delayed by the same Washington Republicans who helped craft the Bush-
onomics that created this recession.
  In 1993, Washington Republicans said that the Clinton budget would 
lead to a job-killing recession. Instead, the Clinton economy created 
22 million jobs in just 8 years. Compare that to the 2.6 million jobs 
lost just last year, in the last year of President Bush's 
administration.
  In 2001, Washington Republicans swore that their tax cuts would lead 
to the most robust economy we have ever seen. Instead, their theory 
went bust and drained the surplus that President Clinton had created 
and left us with a staggering deficit that we are now dealing with.
  The American people demanded in November for a change, and for a 
reason: Republican economic theories don't work and certainly don't put 
American people back to work.
  I urge Washington Republicans to join fellow Republicans like 
Governor Crist and Governor Schwarzenegger and help us enact President 
Obama's plan to turn this economy around.

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