[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17836]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          BUSH ECONOMIC POLICIES ARE BAD FOR AVERAGE AMERICANS

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, the Republicans have performed a hat 
trick. They have control of the House, the White House, and the Senate, 
and now they are trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
  They need money, piles and piles of it.
  The President's tax giveaway to the very rich soaked average 
Americans and drained the U.S. Treasury. The President's Iraq war is 
bleeding the U.S. economy and ballooning the Federal deficit.
  It will only get worse.
  Administration surrogates now openly talk about remaining in Iraq for 
decades. The Pentagon's annual budget is already close to the entire 
Federal deficit. To feed the President's war, every domestic program, 
from Medicare to veterans' health, to low-income housing, is on the 
table. Make no mistake. Domestic programs are going to be squeezed 
hard, just like the middle class. This is the lemon that we have in the 
White House.
  It is the Republican way. Why be fair when you can govern by fear?
  Think about it. The 2nd of November, it is coming.

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