[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DEMOCRATIC PLAN CREATES JOBS

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Madam Speaker, the distinguished 
majority leader got up here and said the first priority of the 
President was the economy. That is interesting for a President who over 
his 2 years in office has lost 2\1/2\ million jobs, 2\1/2\ million 
American workers who do not have jobs and hundreds of thousands of 
others that have run out of unemployment and the President has resisted 
extending their unemployment benefits. And we will see what happens 
this May as hundreds of thousands more lose their unemployment and they 
have no income support for their families, to pay for their homes, to 
try to help keep their children in school and to pay the doctors' 
bills.
  It is also interesting that he says that there are two purposes: one 
is to give tax relief to stimulate the economy, and the other is to 
keep the government from spending the money because they want to spend 
all the money. The last time I looked, the Republicans controlled the 
House of Representatives, the Republicans controlled the Senate, and 
the Republicans controlled the White House; but apparently we have got 
to destroy the American economy with these tax cuts before they kill 
again. They cannot control themselves from spending trillions of 
dollars. They cannot control themselves from running up the deficit. 
They inherited a $2 trillion surplus, and they have turned it into a $4 
trillion debt. What happened with these people? They have no fiscal 
discipline. So now they want to spend a trillion dollars to create half 
as many jobs as the Democratic plan will create for $150 billion.

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