[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8307]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. FARENTHOLD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because Americans deserve 
better.
  We deserve the American Dream that our parents and grandparents 
lived. We deserve a government that wants to help us succeed with a 
fair chance and a level playing field for everyone.
  We deserve a government that doesn't stifle innovation and success 
with crushing regulations. We need a government that doesn't decide who 
lives and who dies with a massive Federal health care bureaucracy. We 
deserve a government that is fair and honest and doesn't spy on us. We 
deserve a government of the people, for the people, and by the people, 
not one that targets people based on their political beliefs and snoops 
through our phone records and emails and is too big and powerful to be 
held accountable.
  Americans want a strong economy so they can have better lives for 
themselves and better lives for their families.
  My Republican colleagues and I will continue to push for solutions 
that strengthen economic growth, protect the freedoms and liberties 
that our forefathers fought for and those unalienable rights with which 
we are endowed by our Creator--life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness.

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