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




        GIVING AMERICANS WHAT THEY WANT IN A BIPARTISAN FASHION

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, last year during the political campaign, 
House Democrats promised to pass six pieces of legislation if the 
American people trusted us with control of the House. The American 
people were looking for a new direction and turned to us to get them 
there.
  In the first 3 weeks of the new Congress, we have not disappointed. 
Democrats have delivered on all six promises. During 100 hours we have 
increased the minimum wage, implemented the 9/11 Commission 
recommendations, cut student loan interest rates in half, repealed 
preposterous welfare handouts to Big Oil, approved Federal funding for 
promising stem cell research, and provided our government the ability 
to negotiate lower prescription drug prices for America's seniors.
  Six major pieces of legislation passed by this House within the first 
100 hours of the 110th Congress. And this legislation begins to move 
our Nation in a new direction, one where the needs of all Americans are 
finally addressed here on the House floor. These six pieces of 
legislation will produce real results for the American people, and that 
is why they garnered such strong bipartisan support over the last 3 
weeks. And this is only the beginning.

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