[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16472]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEMOCRATS INVESTING IN RIGHT PRIORITIES

  (Mr. WELCH of Vermont asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH of Vermont. Mr. Speaker, to govern is to choose. For the 
past 6 years, the choices made by the Republican leadership in this 
Congress have been wrong for America: tax cuts for the very wealthy, 
budget cuts for everyone else in health care, in education and the 
environment. It has led to the largest deficit in the history of this 
country.
  The new Congress is making a different choice, promising to invest in 
America's priorities, first by bringing back fiscal responsibility and 
then making government work for average working families. Last week 
this House passed a Homeland Security bill. It improves aviation and 
port security, restores cuts to first responders across the Nation.
  This week we passed an Energy and Water appropriations bill that 
finally provides a significant investment in studying the effects of 
global warming, something that's been ignored for far too long.
  This new Congress is moving this country in a new direction and has 
made a new choice.

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