[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 628]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  A SAD DAY FOR THE WORKERS OF AMERICA

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, prior to serving in the United States 
Congress, I served in the Georgia legislature. We were a bicameral 
body. We had a House and Senate; and when the Georgia House passed a 
bill, the Georgia Senate would take it up for debate. They would vote 
it up or down.
  When I became a Member of the United States House of Representatives, 
a similar bicameral body, I thought that is the way it works. But not 
so. Here we in this House with Republican control have passed a trade 
promotion bill, we have passed a farm bill, we have passed an energy 
bill. We have even passed a terrorism insurance bill and, most 
recently, a jobs creation bill.
  And what has happened on the way to the President for signature? I do 
not know. I do not know. I know that there are some huge tax folks over 
here; and on Ronald Reagan's 91st birthday, they are going to celebrate 
by burying the job-creating bill which we need back in the heartland of 
America so desperately so that people can get to work again. They are 
going to celebrate Ronald Reagan's birthday by burying the stimulus 
package.
  Well, it must be a great day in the liberal Democratic 
establishments, Mr. Speaker; but it is a sad day for the workers of the 
United States of America.

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