[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6381]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

  (Mr. KAGEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, everyone in Wisconsin wants to know the 
answer to the question: Whose side are you on?
  Yesterday, the partisans in the United States Senate voted to return 
to the good old days--to the good old days of unregulated financial 
markets, of voodoo economics on Wall Street, and of the continuing 
deregulation of big banks on Wall Street.
  We cannot afford to go back to the losing policies of the Bush 
administration when Wall Street was allowed to consume the wealth of an 
entire generation. People in Wisconsin believe if you're too big to 
fail, then you should not exist. People in Wisconsin know that we are 
on their side and that, when Wall Street innovates, Main Street pays 
the price.
  We have got to work hard together to catch all of the crooks and to 
follow their trails wherever they may lead. We have to make certain 
that we balance our budgets, that we live within our means, and that we 
rewrite our financial regulations to make things fair for people on 
Main Street. That's what we have to do together.

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