[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TEA PARTY IN TEXAS

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, last week I was privileged to join my 
constituents at TEA parties all across my district, people who are 
frustrated with the spending here in Washington who wanted to say 
enough is enough. They are tired of runaway government spending dressed 
up as stimulus, and more importantly, they are tired of saddling our 
children with a debt they can never repay.
  I came away from these events with hundreds upon hundreds of tea bags 
from my constituents protesting the spending spree that's going on here 
in Washington. But for me, one little girl summed it up. At a TEA party 
in Friendswood, Texas, I got to meet Brittany Hornick, a little 12-
year-old girl who lives in Lake City, Texas. She had this sign that 
sums up what this battle is about. Her sign said, ``Stop spending my 
future income.'' And that's what this is all about, Mr. Speaker.
  The bills that the administration and the Democrats are running up in 
Congress today will be paid by Brittany and her generation. My 
Republican colleagues and I will continue to push for responsible 
spending measures that will ensure that Brittany and her generation are 
not the first generation of American children worse off than their 
parents.

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