[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 11393]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        BUSH TAX CUTS CAUSE LARGEST DEFICIT IN NATION'S HISTORY

  (Mr. ROSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, in my home State of Arkansas, nearly 75,000 
people are out of work today. Unemployment has increased by 19 percent 
in the last 3\1/2\ years.
  However, our Nation's Treasury Secretary John Snow is visiting 
Arkansas today to talk about how President Bush's tax policy reforms 
are actually creating jobs in Arkansas. All the President's tax cuts 
for the wealthy have given us is the largest deficit ever in our 
Nation's history, tax cuts that our children will be forced to pay.
  For Secretary Snow to come to Arkansas today and tell Arkansans the 
administration's economic plan is creating jobs shows a blatant 
disregard for what Arkansas families are really facing. Working 
families do not need more rhetoric; they need jobs, they need 
affordable health care, they need a real Medicare prescription drug 
plan and, yes, they need lower gasoline prices, all things this 
administration has failed to do.

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