[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4776]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    ALL ACROSS WISCONSIN, PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING LOWER GAS PRICES AND 
                 AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE--NOT MORE DEBT

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, all across America and Wisconsin, people are 
demanding lower gas prices and affordable health care, not more debt.
  In recent weeks, our Nation has experienced a dramatic decline in 
home values. And when our home values decline and disappear, so does 
the tax revenue in every town, in every county, in every State of the 
Union.
  Our very way of life is now at risk due to this administration's 
continued economic policy of borrow and spend, and last weekend the 
administration forced us to swallow a minnow with worms by 
nationalizing the debt of financial institutions, guaranteeing their 
debts will be paid by American taxpayers. Whose side are they on? 
Taxpayers invested in their own homes, not in insider Wall Street 
deals.
  This administration is in bed with big banks, big insurance, and Big 
Oil, and businesses who are shipping our jobs overseas. If this 
administration was on the side of taxpayers, what would they do? They 
would cut the price of gasoline. Wisconsin wants lower gas prices, not 
more debt.

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