[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18956]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       TIME FOR A NEW PARTNERSHIP

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, it is 10 years since the Contract on 
America, the Republican takeover. If people think the country is going 
in the right direction, then I guess they are doing a great job.
  They talk about fiscal responsibility; $600 billion deficit this 
year. Every penny of the Social Security surplus and trust fund 
borrowed and spent and replaced with IOUs. We have lower wages, 
outsourced jobs, unemployed Americans, economic insecurity, and record 
numbers of uninsured. And they brag about their record on health care, 
a prescription drug benefit written by and for the pharmaceutical 
industry at tremendous tax to the taxpayer, subsidies to that industry.
  It is time for a new partnership for the majority of Americans, not 
more government by and for an elite few.

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