[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21780]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   TAXPAYERS BEING ASKED TO PAY FOR A GRAND OLD PARTY ON WALL STREET

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Madam Speaker, in somber terms last night, President 
Bush described a crisis as if it had emerged on Wall Street from outer 
space. Never accepting any personal responsibility, this is the man who 
chased the sheriff off Wall Street while it had a party, a grand old 
party.
  That infamous Republican earmark, that Bridge to Nowhere up in 
Alaska, it carried a hefty price tag, $223 million. Well, what 
President Bush is now asking Americans to do is to pay for the 
equivalent of 4,500 Alaskan bridges, a $1 trillion gold-plated, 
diamond-encrusted bridge to Wall Street.
  And our job here in Congress is to ask, is this just another Bridge 
to Nowhere, and ask why is it that the party-goers don't have to pay 
for the party? Why should American taxpayers and future generations of 
Americans have their future mortgaged to pay for a party they never 
participated in?

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