[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 2944]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE ECONOMY AND FISCAL RESTRAINT

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, we are going to keep coming down here 
telling the story of America's economic progress, and it is a great 
story. This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is 
we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created 
millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of 
somewhere higher than 4 percent. Those numbers are coming out Friday. 
We are looking forward to it. It is remarkable. It is almost as 
remarkable how little attention the mainstream media has given to this 
data, to this great economic news.
  Madam Speaker, I look forward to supporting legislation to make 
permanent the Bush tax relief package that has helped drive this 
growth. And I hope our colleagues across the aisle will start to get 
the message: higher taxes do not lead to more jobs.

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