[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13390-13391]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            NEVER FORGET HOW WE GOT INTO THIS ECONOMIC MESS

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, let us never forget, never forget how we got 
into this economic mess. It was the losing Republican ideas that 
brought forward an economic policy that drove our economy into the 
ditch, and now they want the keys to the car back. But after driving 
our economy into the ditch, we cannot allow that to happen.
  What did they deliver? Two wars at the same time without paying a 
dime, a $400 billion handout to big drug companies, helping to ship our 
jobs overseas, an $8 trillion loss of wealth in our housing bubble as 
we crashed into a deep recession.

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  We cannot allow them to have the keys to this car again. We are 
beginning to turn this economy around. We are rebuilding America, job 
by job, block by block and city by city.
  We need to work together in this, but we can't go back to those 
failed and losing policies of the past.

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