[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, as a former small business owner, one 
thing that I know for certain is that there is not a nation on this 
earth that has ever taxed itself into prosperity. Raising taxes and 
increasing regulation absolutely does not create economic growth. It is 
a guarantee that you are going to get less of what you want. We know 
that by reducing regulation and reducing taxes that we see economic 
growth and we see jobs growth.
  Mr. Speaker, America has now recovered economically from the tragedy 
of September 11. We have grown our economy out of recession and passed 
the tremendous blow on September of 2001, and we did it by reducing 
regulation and lowering taxes, by working to change the budget process, 
by reducing what the Federal Government spends, with the budget we have 
passed this year, by beginning to root out waste, fraud and abuse and 
being aggressive in that. In other words, we are working to make 
America competitive.
  Mr. Speaker, I salute our Republican leadership for their commitment 
to this.

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