[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3636-3637]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         STOP DEFICIT SPENDING

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. I take some delight in listening to my friend from 
Texas rail about the government not being able to spend money it 
doesn't have. Yet these Republicans are the

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people who have been spending money the government didn't have for 
years, putting a war in Iraq on our children's credit card, putting 
massive tax cuts in place to benefit a tiny portion of the tax-paying 
public and ignoring the needs of the vast majority. They have been on a 
spending binge under the Bush administration and Republican control to 
fund special interests and ``bridges to nowhere.''
  We invite anybody to look at the proposals that have been advanced. 
It is to stimulate the economy, to help stop the economic free-fall in 
our States, to shore up the problems in States from Michigan to Oregon 
to Florida, to keep the promises that the President made during the 
campaign, and most of all, to stop the wasteful spending for special 
interests and focus it on the taxpayers who need it the most.

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