[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11229]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              THE ECONOMY

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Mr. Speaker, a moment ago we heard the majority 
leader say that numbers alone do not give the full picture about the 
economy. Well, I could not agree more, with the spiraling deficit, more 
tax cuts for people who are already well off, the refusal of the 
President and the Republican leadership to fund the No Child Left 
Behind initiative, or ignoring the promises of candidate Bush to 
enhance Pell Grants, along with a refusal to tap unemployment insurance 
funds to help the long-term unemployed.
  Americans understand that numbers alone do not give the full picture 
about the economy. But what I find, meeting with the long-term 
unemployed in my community, they are looking at misplaced priorities 
and broken promises; and they, like most Americans, do not like what 
they see.

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