[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10693-10694]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          MONEY IN THE STIMULUS BILL WENT TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE

  (Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I ran for Congress 4 years 
ago because I had watched the Republicans

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use the power that they had accrued here to turn our government over to 
their friends in the oil industry and the insurance industry, the drug 
industry and the banking industry, and so I wonder what kind of 
stimulus bill they would have written last year were they still in 
charge.
  It would have been very different than the one that's on the ground 
today in Connecticut, one that has put funds in a small solar company 
in Bethel, Connecticut, Apollo Solar, creating jobs in renewable 
energy; a stimulus bill that just opened up a new early Head Start 
program in Danbury, Connecticut, employing 20 people immediately and 
creating a lot of job opportunities for the parents who now have child 
care. It would have been very different than the bill that gave 
millions and millions in tax credits to middle- and lower-income 
individuals in Connecticut that have allowed them to go out and start 
to create a retail resurgence.
  The stimulus bill would have been done very differently under the 
Republicans. Democrats in charge, the money went to the right people.

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