[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 15 (Tuesday, February 2, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         AN EMPOWERMENT AGENDA

  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government is simply trying 
to do too much at too high a cost to the American people. Thomas 
Jefferson called for ``a wise and frugal government which shall leave 
men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry, and shall not take 
from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.'' And he was right. 
Government should be empowering citizens to succeed in our economy, not 
eroding their freedoms and encouraging dependency.
  The American people are fed up with rapidly growing government 
intruding into their lives. They want us to do something about it. My 
message is simple: To get America back, we must restore our Founders' 
principles of empowerment. I'm working on an empowerment agenda and 
will be here in the weeks to come talking about how we can advance 
empowerment and reduce entitlement. This has been an empowerment 
moment, and there will be many more as we watch our administration 
continue to tax and spend money that we don't have and steal the future 
of our future generations by leaving them with a legacy of debt.

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