[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 623]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   TONIGHT'S OFF-BROADWAY PERFORMANCE

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, I want to give folks a preview of 
tonight's off-Broadway performance that will follow the President's 
State of the Union Address.
  The stage will be the House Budget Committee hearing room. The actor 
in the one-man show will be Republican Representative Paul Ryan from 
Wisconsin. The script will begin with something like, Hello, I'm 
Representative Paul Ryan, and I'm speaking to you from the very 
location where the Democratic job-killing spending binge unfolded 
during the last 2 years. Unfortunately, the script for tonight's 
performance will not include the fact that Democratic investments have 
created more jobs during the last 2 years than were created during the 
entire 8 years of George Bush. You also won't hear about the one thing 
that Republicans fought tooth and nail for during the last 2 years: an 
extension of a budget-busting $700 billion tax break for wealthy 
Americans.
  Coming attractions? The chairman will have another show in the next 
week where he pulls a budget number from a hat filled with rabbits. 
That will be our budget number. Enjoy the show.

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