[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1946]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DRIVING FORWARD WITH THE DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today's vote and today's debate reminded me 
much of when I was 16 years old and my father took me to teach me how 
to drive a car. It was very simple. He said, ``When you want to go 
forward, son, you do like politics and you put the `D' on the 
transmission and you go into drive, you go forward. And if you want to 
go in reverse you go to `R' and you go backwards.'' And it's the same 
thing in politics, and the debate today was the same. If you want to go 
forward, you go with the Democrats. If you want to go backwards, you go 
with the Republicans.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, America went forward.

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