[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20191]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF FAILED POLICIES ARE NOT NEEDED

  (Mr. ALTMIRE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. ALTMIRE. Mr. Speaker, while the $700 billion Wall Street bailout 
that we are considering this week is proof of the failures of the 
economic policies of the past 8 years, we should not forget the 
policies that President Bush and the Republicans tried unsuccessfully 
to enact.
  Imagine what we might be facing now had Republicans been successful 
in privatizing Social Security and tying its benefits to the stock 
market. And it was none other than Senator John McCain who just this 
month said that the American health care system would be better off if 
it were run more like our banking and financial markets.
  Well, thankfully we didn't follow Republicans in tying Social 
Security to the stock market, and we didn't take Senator McCain's 
advice to run our health care system like we run our financial system.
  Mr. Speaker, our Nation simply cannot afford another 4 years of the 
same failed policies that got us into this mess in the first place.

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