[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19015-19016]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          GREAT ECONOMIC NEWS

  (Mr. PRICE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, job growth in the U.S. has 
increased for 25 straight months with unemployment at 5 percent, lower 
than the average for the last three decades. And the news just keeps 
getting better.
  New home sales hit a record high in June. And that should not come as 
a surprise, seeing as how more Americans are working than ever before--
over 130 million jobs.
  But we do not see this on the front page of our newspapers or on the 
nightly newscasts.
  The Republican accomplishments of this House speak for themselves. We 
passed medical liability reform to prevent frivolous lawsuits from 
forcing doctors out of practice or closing hospitals and leaving 
patients with limited access to care.
  We passed Association Health Plans to let small businesses pool their 
resources together in order to purchase affordable health insurance for 
their employees.

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  Mr. Speaker, remember the death tax, the tax that unfairly burdened 
American families at the most inopportune of times? We listened to 
Americans, to our constituents, and we voted to repeal that unjust and 
unfair tax.
  Mr. Speaker, as we head into the August work period we have a record 
of accomplishment and we look forward to sharing it with the American 
people.

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