[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 622]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                GIVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE A NEW DIRECTION

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, tonight the President of the United States 
will appear in this Chamber, as nearly every President has for more 
than 150 years, and report on the State of the Union, and we will 
receive him with the respect that is due his Office.
  We are told in press reports that the President will focus on the 
future, on winning the future; but as the President said last Friday, 
``The past 2 years were about pulling our economy back from the 
brink''--and we expect to hear the same thing today.
  But frankly, as most Americans know, during the last 2 years, this 
administration and the former majority in Congress met our present 
crisis with an avalanche of borrowing and spending and bailouts and 
taxes and takeovers and mandates. Far from pulling our economy back, 
the weight of debt and taxes and regulation have stifled our economic 
recovery.
  Mr. President, we will not win the future with the failed economic 
policies of the past. As you come into this hallowed Chamber tonight, 
we urge you, Mr. President, for not just a new speech. Give the 
American people a new direction.

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