[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H663-H664]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          CRITICIZING PROGRESS

  (Mr. MEEKS of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEKS of New York. If this wasn't so serious, it would be 
laughable. Eight years they had a chance, the other side here, to get 
this economy right. Eight years. And they are the ones that drove it 
into the ground and dares criticize when someone is turning it around 
so we are going in the right direction. Eight years. This didn't happen 
overnight when we started losing jobs. When President Bush left office 
we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. What did they do? Nothing.
  Then you have President Obama come on board, started turning things

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around, and what do they do? Criticize. Criticize progress of creating 
jobs again. Criticize trying to create an opportunity for America to 
have good health care again. Criticize the fact that we are able to 
improve bridges and roads. Criticize the fact that we are going to be 
able to approve the money to help the unemployed. Eight years of 
driving the economy into the ground.
  One year. President Obama had 1 year to make sure that we begin to 
restore America to the prosperity that we had 8 years prior to the Bush 
administration. Let's continue to move in the right direction.

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