[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18954-18955]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        GOP 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey asked and was given permission to address

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the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, in 10 years of majority, 
Republicans have made a difference and a difference not by over-
legislating but by having confidence and faith in the American people 
and the American individual.
  My Republican colleagues and I believe that it is the individual 
American and not the government who can best improve their lives. 
Financial decision-making is best done by the family and not by the 
Federal government. The taxpayers' money belongs in the taxpayers' 
pockets. They work hard for it, and they know how to spend it best.
  Republicans created across-the-board tax cuts for working Americans, 
giving them a greater chance to spend and to save their money as they 
deem fit, giving them options, giving them independence. The benefits 
of our tax relief have rolled on to jump-start the economy, with 1.7 
million new jobs this past year, with the current unemployment rate 
lower than the average rates of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s combined.
  Mr. Speaker, in the next 10 years, the Republicans will continue to 
respect the American individual and, in turn, build on our successes 
and on the success of this great Nation.

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