[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                CHUTZPAH

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, I have listened to my friends on the 
Republican side of the aisle, and the only word that comes to mind is a 
Yiddish word called ``chutzpah.'' Here my friends on the Republican 
side of the aisle are talking about the debt, they're talking about 
jobs, they're talking about fiscal restraint when, in fact, it was the 
Republican administration under George Bush and the Republican programs 
under their Congress that drove us in the ditch and created this mess 
that we have.
  President Obama inherited a $1.4 trillion deficit, the biggest debt 
ever in history. Now the Republicans would like to say, Hey, Democrats, 
why haven't you gotten rid of that? Hey, country, why don't you take 
care of this? Well, this was a big mess that was created under their 
watch. We have tried to create jobs. We're going to deal with this 
long-term debt, but the Republican prescription for America--you know 
what it is? Mass amnesia. They want people to forget. Well, we're not 
going to forget, and we're not going to let the people forget that the 
programs and the policies of the last administration almost took this 
country in the tank, and that's got to stop.

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