[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 14787]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DRAINING THE SWAMP

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Speaker, I remember the closing ad in the Trump 
campaign. He was going to drain the swamp. Good. And then he had the 
CEO of Goldman Sachs up there, who represented the global elite who 
robbed the working class of their savings and homes. Pretty powerful 
stuff, and I will tell you what, I pretty much agreed with it.
  Now, he is already working on draining the swamp, so things are 
showing up in D.C. that you haven't seen for a while. I was walking 
down the street by Trump Tower International last night and I found 
this laying in the street.
  Now, I haven't seen this since a guy named Henry ``Hank'' Paulson, 
former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was Secretary of the Treasury under George 
Bush and he came to Congress after Wall Street destroyed our economy 
with reckless gambling and asked for an unlimited bailout of Wall 
Street, the key to the Treasury.
  Now, I opposed that and, for one proud day, the House of 
Representatives didn't bail out Wall Street. Unfortunately, the Senate 
came back to town. They got scared by Wall Street tanking the market. 
They bailed out Wall Street and a number of my colleagues in the House 
changed their votes, so they all got bailed out. Well enough, good.
  Now, that is Goldman Sachs that says please return to Goldman Sachs. 
Well, Donald Trump is returning the key to the Treasury to Goldman 
Sachs. Ain't that great? That's draining the swamp folks; draining the 
swamp.
  A guy named Mnuchin--now he is a film producer, but he made a fortune 
at Goldman Sachs; his dad worked at Goldman Sachs for 33 years; his 
brother still works at Goldman Sachs--is going to get the key to the 
Treasury.
  Now, he also made a fortune during the TARP bailout by buying an 
asset, IndyMac, and dispossessing tens of thousands of people of their 
homes.
  So I would say that Mr. Trump, the candidate, and the ad was right. 
These people at Goldman Sachs and elsewhere are the global elite who 
have stolen people's savings, who have taken away their homes.
  But now he is putting them back in charge. Mr. Mnuchin is getting the 
key to the Treasury, Goldman Sachs executive, dad, lifetime Goldman 
Sachs executive, brother still working at Goldman Sachs.
  How the heck is that draining the swamp?

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