[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1743-1744]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        COMPLETION OF 100 HOURS

  (Mr. HARE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HARE. Mr. Speaker, during the last election, Democrats had a 
conversation with the American people. We listened to their concerns; 
the skyrocketing prices of college tuition and prescription drugs, the 
dangerously low minimum wage, the persisting security threats to our 
Nation, gas price gouging by Big Oil, and the disgraceful way the House 
has been conducting the People's business, and we promised to act 
quickly to make important changes and take America in a new direction.
  I am pleased that we can report to those millions of Americans who 
voted to elect a Democratic majority in Congress, we have heard your 
concerns and we have taken action. Already less than 100 hours into 
this new Democratic Congress, we have passed legislation to clean up 
House ethics rules, implement the 9/11 Commission recommendations, 
raised the minimum wage, end Federal subsidies to Big Oil, and lower 
the price of prescription drugs and a college education.
  Mr. Speaker, great progress has been made already this session, but 
these first 100 hours are just the beginning. Democrats are committed 
to continuing to improve the lives of all Americans. That is what we 
were elected to do.

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