[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17331]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              REPUBLICANS GETTING THINGS DONE FOR 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, when the Republicans took over the White 
House, the Senate and the House, the critics in this town came out of 
the woodwork, which does not take much to rile them up, but they said 
they are never going to get anything done. The first year in office Mr. 
Bush passed No Child Left Behind, a great bipartisan education reform 
package; this year taken on a world leadership role to liberate Iraq 
from the oppression of Saddam Hussein and make it possible to inspect 
for weapons of mass destruction; and now we are leading Iraq towards 
democracy. We have also passed economic relief in the form of tax 
relief for small businesses, for families and for farmers, something 
that will turn the economy around. And then earlier last month we 
passed Medicare reform with a prescription drug benefit.
  We have other things that we are going to do for medicine. We are 
going to take on malpractice reform. It has already passed in the 
House. The other body is debating on it very soon. We are passing in 
the House health savings accounts so that people could set up a medical 
savings-type account approach to healthcare. We are taking on lots of 
new initiatives, and so the critics, they are always going to be here 
in Washington, DC., but if we look at the scorecard, it has been a very 
solid record.
  Republicans in the House, Republicans in the Senate, Republicans at 
the White House are getting things done for the American people. We 
welcome the Democrats to join us. We do not want this to be a partisan 
show. We want bipartisan ideas because what this is about is not a 
better Republican Party, but a better America, and we need both parties 
and all people to participate.

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