[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4826-4827]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                DEMOCRATS, DON'T BLOW OUR GREAT ECONOMY

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, you know, over the last 12 years, the 
Democrats have been in the minority, Republicans have been in the 
majority. The economy boomed in the late '90s. We had this tragic event 
on 9/11; it should have sent this country into a terrible depression, 
but this Congress, Republican majority, pushed through tax cuts that 
have allowed the economy to rebound and be robust and provide jobs and 
better standard of living. And in 2 months of talking about raising 
taxes and more regulation and one committee chairman talking about how 
he is going to undermine the President's national security policy, in 
just 2 months we have this terrible damage to the stock market, to the 
economy. Unbelievable. They were saying last night on the news that 
this is the biggest drop since 9/11. In 2 months of talking about all 
these new plans, we are going to cost people jobs.
  I would just encourage my friends across the aisle, be careful. We 
have built a great economy. Don't blow it quite so quickly.

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