[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                CHANGING THE WAY CONGRESS DOES BUSINESS

  (Mr. ALTMIRE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ALTMIRE. Mr. Speaker, Democrats continue to demonstrate that they 
are changing the way Congress does business. We reach across the aisle 
to pass bipartisan legislation that puts the American people first. 
Just last week Republicans and Democrats came together to provide a 
much-deserved pay increase for our troops serving bravely overseas. We 
joined together to fight crime by adding 50,000 cops to the street, and 
we passed an affordable housing bill that keeps the people of the gulf 
coast on the road to recovering after Hurricane Katrina.
  We also accomplished something last week that 3 of the last 5 years 
Congress was unable to do: come to an agreement on a sensible budget 
with the Senate. It is a budget that prioritizes our Nation's veterans 
and achieves balance without raising a penny of taxes.

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