[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12209]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          REVISIONIST HISTORY

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Madam Speaker, I will be happy to address some of the 
revisionist history.
  If we want to talk about reality testing, how about the fact that, in 
September of 2008, Democrats had controlled every level of power in the 
United States Congress for some 20 months, but we didn't hear a peep 
out of them until Lehman Brothers failed?
  And, oh, by the way, who was on watch at the New York Fed when that 
happened? Timothy Geithner. He was rewarded by becoming President 
Obama's Treasury Secretary.
  For the first 2 years of the Obama administration, it was so anti-
employer that no wonder the recovery was, indeed, a jobless recovery 
and that it has continued in that mode until today.
  And don't get me started about the Affordable Care Act. That has been 
a wet blanket on job creation in this economy. The President knows it, 
which is why he revised things last week.
  And, oh, by the way, if he wants to reach out his hand to us, how 
about sending people from the agencies to our committees who at least 
will stop the propensity for prevarication when they will not admit to 
the fact that they have contingency plans in place for delaying and 
downsizing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act as they were, 
in fact, planning that very measure when those people came to the 
committee and spoke under oath.

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