[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5399]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE RECOVERY PLAN

  (Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida. Mr. Speaker, earlier this month, House 
Republicans refused, to a person, to support the economic course that 
President Obama's recovery plan offered.
  The Republican proposal is made up almost entirely of tax cuts for 
the wealthy and strips virtually all of the job-creation investments 
that was necessary to transform our economy for the future. Their 
alternative plan had no funds for American infrastructure needs, no 
investment in energy efficiency, and no protection for health care, no 
money for police officers and teachers and no food assistance for 
struggling families, and offered no chance for America to come out of 
this recession stronger and more able to compete economically.
  Mr. Speaker, when are House Republicans going to realize that you can 
fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the 
people all of the time?

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