[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18010]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          REPUBLICAN FAILURES

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, Senator Moynihan once said, ``You are 
entitled to your own opinions, but you are not entitled to your own 
facts.''
  The dominant political fact of the last 8 years has been Republican 
failure, serial governing malpractice. This month, we will be holding 
them to account.
  There ought to be a heavy cost for 2.5 million lost jobs; for 5 
million more of our fellow citizens thrust into poverty; for stagnating 
wages; for skyrocketing costs of essentials; for 8.6 million more 
Americans uninsured; for surpluses turned into record deficits; for an 
America whose respect has been reduced around the world; for foreign 
borrowing that has exceeded the total racked up under the first 42 
Presidents combined. All of that happened under the grip of Republican 
ideology. Eight years in the White House, 6 years with all the levers 
of power, and after all that, they suggest more of the same.
  Every time they try to change the subject, every time they pretend to 
be agents of change, we will answer with the simple facts of failure. 
We have faith in the facts. We will stake an election on that faith. 
And when we win, we will govern secure in that faith.

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