[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25086]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              COMMITTEE FOR STIMULUS PACKAGE NEEDS TO MEET

  (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, the President and many national leaders are 
asking us to stimulate the economy by putting together a package and 
presenting it to the President for his signature. Some may remember it 
was this House that passed the so-called stimulus package, but what was 
in it? Hundreds of billions of dollars of corporate tax cuts, and 
little if no notice was given to the hundreds of thousands of people 
that are unemployed. That is the Republican stimulus package. Yet 
Members are ridiculing the Senate for not moving. What they fail to 
realize is that the leadership of the committee is not on the Senate 
side. The chairmanship of the committee comes from the House side from 
the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means.
  Mr. Speaker, it would seem to me that if we were serious about doing 
something, the committee would have a meeting. What most Americans and 
Members do not know, we have not met since last Wednesday. If there is 
an urgency, let us not blame the Senate. Let us find out where the 
blame is, and have Members of Congress not having press conferences or 
fund-raisers, but coming together trying to resolve this difference.

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