[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17050]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           NO SECOND STIMULUS

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, I join the majority of Americans who found 
themselves in utter disbelief yesterday when they heard the majority 
leader say that this Congress might need to consider a second stimulus 
package. After the first stimulus package has proved to be a failure in 
stabilizing the economy and mitigating unemployment, the best solution 
the liberal leadership in the House can propose is to continue on this 
reckless spending spree.
  At present, we are spending $100 million a day on interest on the 
first stimulus, and yet unemployment has now reached 9.5 percent. This 
first stimulus has proved to be nothing more than a tool to fund a 
broad-sweeping social agenda that has been on the shelf for years. The 
Vice President said we misread the economy. Well, Mr. Biden, not one 
Republican in this House misread it because none of us voted for it.
  If we really want to stimulate the economy, we should immediately cut 
marginal tax rates for all and provide emergency tax relief to the very 
entities that employ 70 percent of those employed--small businesses.
  The American people have had enough of the tax-and-spend mentality of 
Congress.

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