[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7893-7894]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. MEEK of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I am here today to not only report 
to the American people an unfortunate event we are going through here 
in the United States, living under the highest deficit in the history 
of the Republic and losing 2.8 million jobs since the Bush 
administration has been in control of our government.
  I think it is very, very important for the American people to 
understand that Democrats in this House are looking for sensible tax 
relief and also reducing the deficit along with creating manufacturing 
jobs. I am talking about those 2.8 million Americans that are out of 
work and who had jobs and were paying taxes and were also providing 
health care, or trying to pay for health care, for their families.
  I think it is very, very important the American people pay very close 
attention to those that are trying to push forward reasonable tax 
relief, student loan opportunities for the middle class, and who want 
to make sure we can move forward in building America and manufacturing 
jobs and making sure that we close the gap on the 2.8 million jobs that 
have been lost under this administration.

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