[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4832]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              APRIL FOOLS AND THE REPUBLICAN SPENDING CUTS

  (Mr. PERLMUTTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PERLMUTTER. Mr. Speaker, as one of the previous Members on the 
Democratic side talked about, tomorrow is April Fools. April 1, April 
Fools. The Republicans would like to have everybody believe that a bill 
that just passed the House but has never passed the Senate, never been 
signed by the President, is going to become law. I mean, we all know 
from our civics class that just isn't what the Constitution says, but 
they'd like us to believe that.
  Now, that's a bad enough joke on America, but the real bad joke is 
what's in that bill. We're finally starting to get this country on its 
feet economically. We're starting to make things in America again. 
Manufacturing is on the rise. But they'd like to see that cut. They 
want to cut our research into clean energy, which, in Colorado, for 
every job that we have in research, there are four private sector jobs. 
They want to cut that. That's the bad joke that's coming up on April 
Fools.
  The cuts that they ask really pull the rug right out from under the 
feet of America, and we've got to stop it.

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