[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19568]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 THE ACTIONS OF THIS CONGRESS ARE DESTROYING THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY

  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Sometimes I wonder if anybody on the other side of the 
aisle ever goes home because I tell you, doing town meetings, we have 
three or four times more people than normal show up. And I will tell 
you what, they are scared to death of what they see happening in this 
country.
  When they look at the $787 billion stimulus package that has no 
benefit to anyone today, when they look at people voting for cap-and-
trade without even having read the bill, only to find out that in Iowa 
that would cost 17,000 jobs for each of the next 20 years and 2.5 
million jobs nationwide for the next 20 years, they go, What's going 
on? When are we going to get our government back? When are people going 
to listen to us and be responsive?
  What this debate is all about is our children and our grandchildren 
and what we're going to leave them for the future; what it's going to 
do for someone who wants an opportunity to start a small business, to 
grow and prosper and be part of this economy. We are destroying the 
future of this country with what this Congress is doing.

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