[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Pages 2963-2964]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ECONOMIC STIMULUS

  Mr. CORKER. Mr. President, I rise today to talk about the Colombia 
Free Trade Agreement. I would like to say, just listening to our two 
leaders, there are certainly a lot of issues that our country needs to 
deal with. I would say that this body has lost a great deal of 
credibility as it relates to stimulus packages by virtue of the one we 
just passed.
  While I know there will be people throughout our country who will be 
gleefully receiving checks in this election year, which certainly will 
make them feel good about us for a week or two, I think most of them 
realize our previous attempts at stimulating the economy did more to 
stimulate the good will toward us than the economy. I think all of us 
should be very slow to try to move toward a stimulus package, in that 
our past efforts, to me,

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have lacked the kind of credibility necessary in these difficult times.

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