[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20462]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



               ECONOMIC STIMULATION FOR SPECIAL INTERESTS

  (Mr. GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker after September 11, the American 
people came together, Democrats, Republicans, rural, urban, East, West, 
North, South, white, black, Hispanic and Asian. The American people 
wanted this, and they demand it from us.
  But today is a different story. The so-called stimulus package that 
we have on the floor today is being presented wrapped in red, white and 
blue, but it is a charade. It is a Trojan horse for every special 
interest package that has come around for the last 10 years. The 
American people are not and will not be fooled. This so-called stimulus 
package is a wish list of every special interest tax rebate and tax cut 
that will not stimulate our economy and does nothing to help us from 
the September 11 tragedy. The wrapping of special interest legislation 
in our patriotic feelings is wrong, and it is not in the spirit of our 
bipartisan war effort.
  Do not wrap your special interest in our flag and expect the American 
people to accept it.

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