[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5738]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           BROKEN GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. REICHERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REICHERT. Mr. Speaker, I was home again this weekend and, guess 
what, the American people are still sick and tired of this broken 
government and business as usual, and so am I.
  They said that new government leaders promised them change, and 
that's what they got. And that's what they still get when they stick 
their hand in their pocket, a handful of change.
  The new government said we will pay for everything we do. They call 
it ``pay as you go.'' The people I talk to say what we got instead was 
tax to the max, borrow like there's no tomorrow, and spend to the end. 
Spend to the end of American ingenuity, spend to the end of American 
innovation, spend to the end of our children's future, the end of a 
great American experiment, the end of our freedom.
  Instead of building our country on the word ``change,'' let's get 
America back on track, build it on words like responsibility, 
accountability, God, family, country. Mr. Speaker, how about faith, a 
little faith in the American people?

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