[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13512]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     WHEN REPUBLICANS WERE IN CONTROL, THEY DIDN'T PAY FOR ANYTHING

  (Mr. YARMUTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Speaker, Sunday on ``Meet the Press,'' the chairman 
of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Mr. Sessions of 
Texas, said that if the Republicans took over the House next Congress, 
that we could count on the exact same agenda that we had under the Bush 
administration.
  Now, you know, there is some good news and bad news to that. The good 
news is we wouldn't have to fight about extending desperately needed 
unemployment insurance benefits to American citizens, because when the 
Republicans were in control they didn't pay for anything--not for two 
wars, not for a massive tax cut for the rich, and certainly not for a 
massive prescription drug program.
  Of course, the bad news is that we would be once again turning the 
country over to big banks and big insurance companies and Big Oil 
because, as Minority Leader Boehner said, he is for a moratorium on 
regulation in this country.
  No. I know the Republicans would like the American people to get 
collective amnesia this fall, but they remember, just like the 
elephants. They remember the Bush agenda, and they don't want that 
exact same agenda repeated in the 112th Congress.

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