[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15788]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO MICHIGAN NOTHING MORE THAN A PEP RALLY

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, this week the President visited Michigan's 
Upper Peninsula. Too bad his visit was a pep rally. Instead, he owed 
the people of Northern Michigan some answers about his failed policies 
that have taken this Nation backwards in so many ways.
  This is what the President should have talked about: how we would 
address the infinite list of problems and confusion with the sham 
Medicare prescription drug law; why we created new mandates for 
Northern Michigan schoolteachers and students through No Child Left 
Behind, but then failed to provide the needed financial resources to 
meet them; how he will restore the 397,000 jobs in Michigan we have 
lost, and more than 2 million nationwide. Many of these jobs have been 
shipped overseas.
  The deficit: why the country has gone from record surpluses to a 
record $521 billion deficit. Why did the President choose tax cuts for 
the wealthy at the expense of putting the Nation's checkbook deep in 
the red?
  Homeland security: Why has the President repeatedly cut needed 
funding for homeland security grants to local and State agencies. The 
Great Lakes: How will he restore the Great Lakes? His current proposal 
is a study of studies that will only keep us treading water.
  Instead of real answers, all this President can give the American 
people is a pep rally. The American people deserve better.

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