[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE HOLD ON TO YOUR WALLET CONGRESS

  (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, this is the ``Hold on to Your Wallet 
Congress'' because they have spent 100 hours getting into the 
taxpayers' wallet, and as we have heard them say, they have just gotten 
started.
  We have had no regular order, no rules. They have made it easier to 
raise taxes by passing a semblance of PAYGO that makes spending 
permanent and tax relief temporary.
  They don't want recorded votes because they don't want their 
constituents to know what they are voting on. They have passed a 9/11 
bill that our private industry tells us is going to be billions of 
dollars in cost to the taxpayer. We have a minimum wage bill that is 
going to cost billions of dollars to small businesses and also brought 
about the Tunagate scandal.
  Yes, you know, we are seeing it on every front, an energy bill that 
is going to raise taxes, not make gas more affordable, student loan 
legislation that doesn't do one single thing to help students get into 
college and stay in college.
  Yes, hold on to your wallet, Mr. Speaker. They are coming for it.

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