[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12911]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              WHY GO BACK?

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Republicans, sadly, apologized to BP and call 
Wall Street reform an ant being hated by the U.S. Government. 
Meanwhile, they continue to say ``no'' to Democratic Party attempts to 
extend unemployment insurance benefits for the next 6 months. They're 
calling these benefits an ``entitlement'' and say that they're being 
abused by folks who can't find a job. And this despite an analysis by 
the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office suggesting that extending 
unemployment benefits is the most cost-effective and fast-acting way to 
spur the economy.
  Congressional Republicans support the special interests that 
benefited from George Bush policies and created the worst financial 
crisis since the Great Depression. A decade of Republican rule nearly 
doubled our national debt. Why would we go back to that?

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