[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 3, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             BIPARTISANSHIP

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues and I were pleased 
to meet with the President last week about the many problems facing our 
Nation, the most important being that folks across the country are 
without jobs. We can no longer pretend that exploding deficits, bigger 
government, more taxes, and generational debt will lead us out of this 
dire recession.
  During his State of the Union speech, the President said that 
Republicans have presented no solutions. Later that week when we handed 
him a copy of the Republicans' ``Better Solutions,'' without reading it 
he said that many of our ideas have already been incorporated into his 
bills. Which is true? I urge the President to immediately abandon the 
government takeover of health care and other industries. Instead, he 
should actually consider some of these commonsense ideas so that we can 
solve this country's problems in a bipartisan way by immediately 
cutting deficits and restoring the thing this country wants most--jobs, 
jobs, jobs.

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