[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, this week and in the coming weeks the 
American people need this House and Senate and the President to work in 
a bipartisan fashion to come up with a monetary policy and a fiscal 
policy here that will help our economy. It needs to be temporary, 
timely and targeted. And I would hope that we can work with our 
Republican colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to direct that to people 
in the middle income and lower income levels who need the help and will 
spend the money immediately.
  To give rebates to people who are making a lot of money, people 
earning salaries such as we are in Congress, and others, is not the 
right thing to do. We need to give money to people who are suffering 
the most from the high gas prices, from the loss of employment, and 
from the other economic effects that are hurting the people at the 
bottom.
  I ask my Republican colleagues and the President, and hopefully he 
will in the State of the Union, address those who need help the most 
and help this American and world economy.

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