[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5469]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                NEWSWEEK SHOULD REPORT FACTS ON ECONOMY

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, to my left is the Media Fairness 
Caucus' Newsweek Wall of Shame, a collection of the magazine's very 
biased cover articles. Previous covers have featured Vice President Al 
Gore with the caption, ``The Thinking Man's Thinking Man''; President 
Obama with the caption, ``Yes, He Can''; and Vice President Joe Biden, 
``A Vice President to be Reckoned With.'' This week's cover reads, 
``America's Back! The Remarkable Tale of our Economic Turnaround''.
  Apparently Newsweek hasn't heard that the unemployment rate remains 
close to 10 percent, with 16 million Americans unemployed, that 
personal income has fallen over 3 percent since President Obama took 
office, and that the President's budget doubles the national debt in 5 
years and triples it in 10.
  The only way to bring America back is to reverse the administration's 
policies of higher taxes, runaway spending, government takeovers, and 
record debt. Newsweek should report the facts on the economy, not 
provide free and false advertising for the Obama administration.

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