[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 356]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            ARRIVAL OF THE 21ST CENTURY ON JANUARY 20, 2009

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, the 21st century, in reality, will be 
arriving in America on the 20th of January 2009. It's been put off far 
enough by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and we've heard 
more of their rhetoric today, acting like, as Dick Cheney said, 
``Herbert Hooverians.'' If the Republican Party didn't wake up, they'd 
be known as the Party of Herbert Hoover forever.
  When the Great Depression came, Herbert Hoover and his Treasury 
Secretary Morgenthal and his colleagues in the Congress did not act. It 
caused the Great Depression to be worse.
  We must act. We need a major economic stimulus package which will be 
presented by President-elect Obama, and this Democratic Congress and 
this Democratic Congressman will support it because we need jobs 
creation. We need to give people hope and the reality that we can come 
out of this. We're going to have problems in 2009 with the economy 
regardless, but they'll be less.
  The 21st century couldn't come soon enough. I look forward to January 
20, 2009, to working with President-elect Obama and this Democratic 
Congress to make America great again.

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