[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 24, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3758]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             WE'VE GOT TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF THIS NATION

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I listened to my friends on the other 
side of the aisle. The problem is they forget, and they're kind of 
revising history. It's the Republican President and a Republican 
Congress that drove this country into the ditch financially and 
economically, and what we've got to do is change the course of this 
Nation.
  That's what the President is undertaking to do, by providing small 
business with tax credits, with assistance as to funding of their 
particular projects, because that's where the real engine of our 
economy is--in small businesses.
  So, last week, the President announced various initiatives to assist 
small business to make credit available to them for their various 
projects, to purchase their loans so that they could go forward, so 
small banks could make loans to small businesses.
  This President is making available to 95 percent of us tax credits. 
So for 95 percent of the American public, they will see their taxes go 
down.
  So my friends on the other side of the aisle forget the history that 
brought us here. The Republican administration, by giving tax cuts to 
the wealthiest while prosecuting a war, put us in a very difficult 
position, but we will get it out by changing the direction of this 
Nation.

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