[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19425]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE IN THE POLICIES OF THIS NATION

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, this country was really founded upon 
sacrifice, investment and opportunity for all, but over the last few 
years, we've seen the focus being on the wealthiest 1 percent in 
America to the exclusion of the rest of us, and that House of cards has 
come tumbling down on Wall Street over the last couple of weeks with 
the failures of the biggest corporations in America.
  The policies of this administration not to regulate and the policies 
to only borrow and spend are causing this country turmoil, and the 
hardworking people in the middle are going to have to pick up the 
pieces. It is time for renewal. It is time for a change. The policies 
of the Democrats and of Barack Obama are going to change the direction 
of this Nation and make it stronger and make it the Nation that it can 
be.

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