[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22900]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             DON'T LET CONGRESS SEAL THIS WALL STREET DEAL

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, my message to the American people: Don't let 
Congress seal this Wall Street deal.
  High financial crimes have been committed. Now Congress is being 
asked to bail out the culprits and to do so at the expense of those who 
elected us to guard their interests--the people of our country.
  The normal legislative process that should accompany the review of a 
monumental proposal to bail out Wall Street has been shelved--yes, 
shelved. Only a few insiders are doing the dealing. It sounds like 
insider trading to me.
  These criminals have so much political power that they can shut down 
the normal legislative process of the highest law-making body in this 
land. All of the committees that should be scanning every word of what 
is being negotiated are benched, and that means the American people are 
benched, too.
  We are constitutionally sworn to protect and to defend this Republic 
against all enemies, foreign and domestic. My friends, there are 
enemies. We are told we will have a bill, a $1 trillion bill, to review 
soon, and will have less than 24 hours with no regular hearings to try 
to vote on this bramblebush.
  The people pushing this deal are the very same ones who were 
responsible for the implosion on Wall Street. They were fraudulent then 
and they're fraudulent now. We should say ``no'' to this deal. I ask my 
colleagues to join us at 2 o'clock in HC-8 of the Capitol to meet with 
some real experts who have done financial resolutions without putting 
the burden on the taxpayer.
  Please join us in HC-8 at 2 p.m.

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