[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12403]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT ACTION

  (Mr. BOCCIERI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOCCIERI. Mr. Speaker, I have always been told that leadership is 
about action, not position. But when you hear the position on the other 
side of the aisle that we need to stand up for big Wall Street banks, 
we need to stand up and apologize to BP and Big Oil for our involvement 
in trying to clean up the oil spills, and we need to stand up and allow 
foreign corporations to be involved in our political process, there is 
a clear difference between this aisle, and it's a bright line. The 
American people need to understand this.
  When we took office a year ago as freshman Democrats, we were handed 
two undeclared, unfunded wars, an economy that was in free fall, we 
didn't know where we were going to land, and greed, unregulated greed 
on Wall Street. And now the answers and solutions that we hear from the 
other side is that we need to privatize Social Security to pay for our 
debt, we need to make sure that we apologize to BP, we need to make 
Americans work harder and work until they are 70.
  Mr. Speaker, there is a clear difference. We need regulated reform to 
make sure that Wall Street banks are accountable. We need to make sure 
we move away from our dependence on foreign oil, so that we stand up to 
the big insurance companies and provide access to health care for all 
Americans. There has been a clear difference for the decisions that we 
made because we know on this side that leadership is about action, not 
position.

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