[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 57 (Wednesday, April 21, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2701]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            WE CAN DO BETTER

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor this morning 
with a simple message: we can do better. Just look around.
  What has been accomplished under the Democratic leadership? A 
takeover of our health care system, otherwise known as ObamaCare, which 
spends money we don't have, without lowering the cost of health care. A 
cap-and-tax energy bill which would cost the average American family an 
additional $3,000 annually for the energy. And, of course, the failed 
stimulus legislation costing $861 billion that has yet to create a 
single non-government job, leaving our unemployment rate at an abysmal 
9.7 percent.
  Now the Senate is considering a permanent bailout for Wall Street, 
and the President's top economic adviser is pushing for a European-
style value added tax on top of our current tax system.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve better than they're 
currently getting, and House Republicans have a commonsense solution 
that will create jobs, lower the tax burden for American families, and 
stop spending money that we don't have.

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