[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22986]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DEMOCRATS' PATTERN OF ACTION

  (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, you know, to the Americans who are 
watching what is taking place on this floor over the past couple of 
days, it probably seems like a story nightmare, what is up is down, 
what is down is up; 215 is assumed to be less than 213. There you go. 
And I do think that Thursday night's vote is still going to continue to 
be one of those actions of disgrace when we talk about the history of 
this House.
  But, Mr. Speaker, it is a pattern of action that we see. They are for 
tax increases. They voted for the single largest tax increase in 
history, they did that on March 29th, for personal earmarks, and then 
admitting that they're putting earmarks in legislation to buy votes. 
That is taking place. Oh, and hiding those earmarks in slush funds. We 
forgot about that one.
  Record spending. Never in the history of the world has a legislative 
body spent as much money as this body is spending under Democrat 
control. $193 billion in cuts to Medicare, inflicting that on our 
senior citizens, and yes, fixing that vote to give illegal immigrants 
benefits, shelter, food, paychecks, putting them before the American 
people.
  We will continue to fight for freedom and stand for security.

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