[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3526]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                GOP MESSAGE TO CONSTITUENTS: SUCK IT UP

  (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. Mr. Speaker, today's message from the House 
Republicans is as follows--and these are my quotes, by the way--``This 
House will subsidize Big Oil and Wall Street, but our constituents who 
are losing their homes can just suck it up and find a bridge to sleep 
under.''
  Just about every economist under the sun agrees that we won't have 
robust job growth and recovery until foreclosures are under control; 
but rather than putting forth a proposal to improve the deeply flawed 
homeowner assistance programs, the GOP panders to its Wall Street base 
by proposing we do away with homeowner assistance altogether.
  I urge my colleagues to join me in rejecting this anti-homeowner, 
anti-middle class proposal so we can turn to the serious work of 
improving homeowners' assistance programs that are currently failing.

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