[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            STROLLING DOWN MEMORY LANE: THE BUSH PRESIDENCY

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, with the clock winding down on the 
President's second term, this seems like a good time to stroll down 
memory lane, looking back on America then and now.
  Under this President the number of Americans without health care has 
risen from 38 million to 46 million. Under this President the price of 
gasoline has risen from less than $1.50 a gallon to $4 a gallon. Under 
this President the unemployment rate has risen to over 6 percent, with 
millions more Americans out of work and running out of help. Under this 
President the prices that Americans pay for food, fuel, college, 
transportation, and medical costs have risen by 25 percent. And let's 
not forget that mortgage foreclosures are rising while housing prices 
are falling, like a rock. This President has been willing to bail out 
Wall Street but never mind Main Street.
  Strolling down memory lane can be very educational, especially when 
you consider the President is running for an unprecedented third term. 
They talk about change, but only the names will change. The Republican 
``wreck-o-nomic'' policies that created this economic disaster will 
remain exactly the same. That's not nostalgia; that's a promise from 
this administration.

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