[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17521]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HURRICANE HITS WASHINGTON, D.C.

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, my district is in hurricane alley. 
Since I've been elected to Congress, we've had five hurricanes: 
Katrina, Rita, Humberto, Gustav, and Ike. Hurricane season is over in 
southeast Texas, but hurricane season came late this year to D.C. And 
as I predicted in September, the fall forecast in Washington was for 
gale-force winds.
  And sure enough, the hurricane hit D.C. on November 2. We warned 
them. We told them all about the hurricane warning signs. We even gave 
them an evacuation plan: Stop spending trillions of taxpayer dollars. 
Say ``no'' to nationalized health care. Stop the government takeover of 
everything that moves. Stop the taxes, and quit borrowing money from 
the Chinese. And most importantly, listen to the American people. But 
they didn't listen, and a hurricane named after the American people 
blew through town. And it was a category 5, with 63 electoral 
casualties. The elites and big government control gang have sown the 
wind, and now they are reaping the whirlwind.
  And that's just the way it is.

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