[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3025]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Many of you may remember in the 1992 campaign 
for the Presidency, James Carville made famous the phrase ``It's the 
economy, stupid,'' because they posted that sign on the campaign war 
room to remind the candidate and the staff that that was the number one 
issue the American people wanted focused on.
  Well, you know, Mr. Carville ought to pull that signage back out and 
take it over to the White House and maybe take one down the hallway 
here to the Speaker's suite to remind the majority and the leadership 
that that is what the American people want us focused on. It is not a 
government takeover of health care; they want us to focus on the 
economy and creating jobs.
  I don't know why that seems to be something that they don't want to 
do. The President said at the beginning of the year that he was going 
to pivot from health care and focus ``like a laser'' on jobs and the 
economy. And here we are now demanding that we put our full attention 
on the government takeover of health care by the end of next week.
  You just want to remind them: It's the economy, stupid. Let's focus 
on it.

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