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




                       DEMOCRATS' EMPTY PROMISES

  (Mr. WESTMORELAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. WESTMORELAND. As my colleague from Georgia just said, I was 
looking forward to that 5-day workweek, and so far, since January 4, I 
believe we have experienced one. Here it is, 2:25. And I don't know of 
many people from the Third District of Georgia that are home right now. 
Most people are working.
  The chairman of the Financial Services Committee said his people were 
falling sleep. They must be staying up too late at night because it is 
not from overwork. As my colleague from Georgia said, I think in the 
last 2 days we have worked an hour and a half.
  When the Republicans were in charge, I remember getting home at 
10:30, 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock at night from a hard day's work. And when 
the Democrats took over, I had to really kind of refocus on how to get 
back to my apartment because I had never seen the daylight hours.
  So I want to ask the Democrats on the other side of the aisle, if you 
are going to say something, let's do it. Let's make sure that we do it, 
and that these are not just empty promises that you told the American 
people to get into the majority.

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