[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8406]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 THE DEMOCRAT BUDGET SPENDS TOO MUCH, BORROWS TOO MUCH, AND TAXES TOO 
                                  MUCH

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat budget spends too much, 
borrows too much, and taxes too much. But spending and taxes has never 
been a problem for Speaker Pelosi and this Congress.
  Take the latest boondoggle in the stimulus bill--$3 million for the 
city of Georgetown and Adams Morgan, upper income neighborhoods of 
Washington, DC, so that they can do, what? Install bike racks and buy 
400 new bicycles for these poor yuppie elitist residents there, many of 
them who make six-digit incomes.
  Now, to my knowledge, the Speaker pro tempore and I are the only 
Members of Congress who regularly ride bikes to work. I am glad. He's 
got a great bike. Mine isn't quite as nice, but I think it is a good 
bike. But we paid for them with our own money.
  Why should the Federal Government have a bicycle program? Why are we 
going out to two of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Washington, DC and 
saying, hey, we are going to buy bicycles for you people? That is 
ridiculous, and that is part of the reason that we need to reject the 
Democrat budget. It spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too 
much.

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