[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PRESERVE THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Madam Speaker, this first year of Congress for me is about 
to end, and the 110th Congress is about to end. It is important that we 
come together on this floor and in this Congress in a bipartisan manner 
to preserve the American economy.
  Whose fault it is--I think the American people know whose fault it 
is. There were 6 years of a Republican President, a Republican Senate, 
a Republican House, and a lack of regulations and a lack of regard to 
the economic conditions that brought about this situation, but now is 
the time to fix the mess.
  Whether you are a first-year Member, a senior Member, a Democrat or 
Republican, when you make a mess, you clean it up. It's our 
responsibility to do it in the proper way with oversight, with the 
American taxpayer at the base of our concerns to make sure we do it 
right.
  We are in for historic times. The Democratic Party and the Republican 
Party need to come together, and we need to have a solution to keep 
America strong.
  God bless the United States of America.

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