[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11197]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              AMERICANS SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRUST GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. WENSTRUP asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WENSTRUP. Mr. Speaker, every coin and bill we use bears the 
phrase ``In God We Trust.'' Sadly, today, our trust tends to stop 
there. I don't recall hearing ``In Government We Trust'' very often.
  President Reagan governed on the phrase ``Trust, but verify.'' This 
holds true to the Founders' original plan of three branches of 
government working to safeguard the people from overreach or abuse of 
power by any one. Current scandals fly in the face of the very 
principles and ethos we live our lives by and the values we were 
founded upon.
  I can tell you that we in southern and southwest Ohio take pride not 
only in hard work but honest work. We now face an executive branch so 
vast that those who are in charge now claim that full accountability is 
impossible. They claim that government is too vast to be held 
accountable.
  Mr. Speaker, I will not give up on the goodness of the American 
citizen and the possibility of responsibility and trust that we should 
be able to have in our government.

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