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




      AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT LESS GOVERNMENT AND MORE RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, out on the plaza a few minutes 
ago, the new Tea Party Caucus met with a bunch of Tea Party members 
from across the country.
  I have heard a lot of my colleagues and people across the country and 
in the media criticize the Tea Party as being racist and a whole host 
of other things. But when we were out there and met with these people, 
we found African Americans. We found Hispanics. We found people from 
all ethnic groups out there saying very clearly they want less 
government spending, less government regulation, lower taxes, and the 
things that everybody believes in this country, and better and closer 
constitutional government. That's what the Tea Party is all about, and 
we are here in the Tea Party Caucus not to tell them anything but to 
listen to them, because they are speaking from the heart for the 
American people.
  It's time that people realize on both sides of the aisle that the Tea 
Party movement is not something that's just not really speaking for the 
American people. These are people from all across the country that want 
Congress and the American Government to know that they want less 
government and more responsibility.

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