[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 3, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H2902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS WILL BENEFIT THE MOST FROM SO-CALLED STIMULUS 
                                PACKAGE

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, a few days ago, just before we voted on 
the so-called stimulus package, The Washington Post said in a story 
that it would mean a ``massive financial windfall for Federal 
agencies.'' The Post was for the bill, but those were the words the 
paper used, ``massive financial windfall for Federal agencies.''
  Then on the front page of today's Washington Post is a story saying, 
``Tens of thousands could be added to Federal payroll'' under the 
President's budget. The story says, ``President Obama's budget is so 
ambitious with vast new spending that experts say he will need to hire 
tens of thousands of new Federal Government workers.''
  All over the country, people think they are going to get stimulus 
money or checks from all this spending, yet the ones who will benefit 
the most are those who need it the least--Federal bureaucrats. Very 
little, Madam Speaker, is going to trickle down to the rest of the 
country.

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