[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        DEMOCRATS ARE COMMITTED TO GET THIS COUNTRY MOVING AGAIN

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, it always amuses me to listen to my 
Republican colleagues talk about the economy. They talk about smaller 
government, they talk about lower taxes, they talk about cutting 
spending. I call this ``bumper strip economics.'' And we've seen what 
bumper strip economics means. It was called the Bush administration, 
and that led us to the worst recession that we faced in this country 
since the 1930s.
  In Kentucky, we've seen what bumper strips actually mean. When Senate 
candidate Rand Paul says, Smaller government means not just don't hold 
oil companies accountable, let's not hold mining companies accountable 
for 29 deaths, let's not even let the government enforce basic civil 
rights, no, the country needs more than bumper strip economics and 
slogan politics. We need policies that are actually going to get this 
country moving again, and that's what Democrats in Congress are 
committed to providing.

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