[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 5, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H772]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT TRUMP HIGHLIGHTS NUMEROUS SUCCESSES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Smith) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. SMITH of Missouri. Madam Speaker, just over 12 hours ago, 
President Donald J. Trump stood in this Chamber and delivered an 
incredible State of the Union Address. He highlighted numerous 
successes during his time as President of the United States:
  Over 7 million jobs created;
  Record unemployment--record unemployment--for five decades;
  The lowest unemployment in over 70 years for women;
  Record unemployment for African, Hispanic, and Asian Americans;
  Doubling of the child tax credit from $1,000 to $2,000;
  Orchestrating phase one of the China trade agreement, which increases 
the amount of agriculture products that the Chinese have to purchase 
from American farmers--the largest purchase in the history of our 
country;
  Passing of the USMCA agreement. The President campaigned on it. It 
was a promise made. It was a promise kept;
  The largest military pay raise in the history of this country.
  The President said he was going to build a barrier along the southern 
border. He highlighted 100 miles of it being finished in his State of 
the Union Address yesterday, with 500 more miles still planned.
  He highlighted how his administration has approved a record number of 
generic drugs, and, for the first time in over 50 years, drug prices 
have actually gone down.
  He highlighted numerous successes that all Members of Congress who 
attended heard. It was unfortunate to sit in this Chamber and watch the 
Democrats on the other side not stand, not applaud for these successes 
for America, these victories for America, the people who sent us to 
Washington, the people we serve, the people who are our bosses. These 
are their victories. These are their successes. But just because they 
came out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, the Democrats oppose 
them.
  Folks, that is chaos in government.
  Ever since the Democrats took control of this Chamber, they have had 
one mission, one mission alone, and that is to remove the duly elected 
45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
  Their mission wasn't about lowering the cost of prescription drugs. 
Their mission was not getting government off the backs of small 
businesses, family farmers, and individuals. Their mission was about 
removing Donald Trump.
  This partisan impeachment sham, this impeachment circus will be done 
today. In the United States Senate, President Donald J. Trump will be 
acquitted for life. You will see the process that happened in the House 
of Representatives was clearly a sham in impeaching the President of 
the United States.
  It was so unfortunate yesterday to be sitting here and watching 
Speaker Pelosi, after the end of the speech, tear up the official 
speech of the President of the United States. That shows the true 
hatred that the Democrat socialists have for the President of the 
United States. That conduct is not fitting for the Speaker of the 
House.
  When the Speaker tore up that State of the Union speech, she ripped 
up the words that recognized one of the last living serving Tuskegee 
airmen.
  When she ripped up that speech, she ripped up the story of a 21-week-
old surviving child who was born in a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital.
  When she ripped up that State of the Union speech, she ripped up the 
story and the recognition of the families of Rocky Jones and Kayla 
Mueller.

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