[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18952]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            DEMOCRATIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, today House Democrats will announce a new 
partnership with the American people, a partnership that would 
strengthen six of our Nation's most important core values. We will put 
Americans back to work, make health care more affordable, hold 
polluters responsible for the contamination they cause, give our 
children the education and development tools they need to have a 
positive future, and restore fiscal responsibility here in Washington.
  Democrats' new partnership is necessary today because a large 
majority of Americans have lost faith in Congress. Over the past 
decade, Republicans have controlled the people's House and have often 
strayed from these core American values.
  My Democratic colleagues and I have been fighting for these causes 
for many years, but this is the first time we are unveiling a 
partnership with the American people, a promise, if you will, that if 
the American people put their trust in us and elect a Democratic 
majority in November, we will work with them as partners to make their 
lives and our government better.

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