[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9149]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          TAKE A SERIOUS LOOK

  (Mr. ROONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. ROONEY. Mr. Speaker, we've all heard about the out-of-control 
spending, the borrowing, the increase in taxes, the bailouts, the AIG 
bonuses, the stock market drop, the job losses, more foreclosures, 
government-run health care, increased gas prices, the credit crisis, 
more jobs lost, the President firing the CEO of General Motors, and 
more jobs lost--and this only in the first 2 months of this Congress.
  Now we face a budget this week that will increase taxes, increase 
spending, increase borrowing more than ever before in the history of 
this country. We are also poised to make serious cuts in military 
spending in uncertain times.
  We need to take a serious look in the eyes of our children and ask 
ourselves if they deserve the future we are giving them.

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