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Frank Jr.Pallone: thousands purged in darfur. yet a turkish organization is investigating genocide in israel what a hypocrisy. while the international community works to contain al bashir's government, turkey embraces it. both governments have a long

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Frank Jr.Pallone: turkey can'ts to deny the slaughter of armenians, instead launching an absurd investigation into israel. if turkey and its n.g.o.'s want to take a stand against genocide they should not point the finger at israel. nor should they be threatening israel with comments like this he said that al la will sooner

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: it on its own history and help to end the genocide in darfur. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: mr. mccotter from michigan. the speaker recognizes you for five minutes.

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: mr. mccotter: i know the chamber is empty, the voting is over, but as regards the stimulus bill in front of us today, i had a request from greg who lives in milford, in my district, if i could read a part of his letter to me regarding that bill. dear congressman mccotter, i spoke with you on friday

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: questions. you see, i just lost my job. a company i worked for is eliminating 700 sales positions nationwide. about 15 will be affected in michigan. i would like to ask the congress and senate if they know what it's like to sit at the dinner table and tell your 11-year-old daughter that she can't get a school yearbook because we need

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: bought for work on clearance because you really needed new shirts and now you don't even have a job? do they know that when i told my 7-year-old son we had just had to make cuts and he responded, can we still have our doughnut on sunday morning before church, that's all he said he wanted, i had to tell him we'd try our best?

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: their job and they're worried that their spouse's job could be next? do they now how fearful it is to turn your heat down to 59 degrees at night and 65 during the day? do they know about the guy i just met whose entire company just took 20% pay cuts so they wouldn't have to lay off employees? congressman mccotter, why

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: create? earlier today we heard the speaker ask members of this body to rember the people at home and feel their hand upon theirs as they cast their vote upon this bill. i did not need to feel that hand upon mine. i felt their pain in my heart because i saw it every day in our michigan neighborhood, our michigan community.

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Thaddeus G. McCotter: voting against it. and the fundamental reason was this, i live in michigan, i live with people who are suffering and they send me here to work for them to try to make things better. and when i go home after a vote to my wife and children, i go home to the people who are

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David Dreier: witness, i will at least be able to tell them the truth, that it will not and i will tell them we will keep trying until we do right by them. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: mr. poe of texas. >> mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to take the time of mr. poe.

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David Dreier: the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from california has five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. following up on the very thoughtful remarks of my friend, mr. mctter, i'd like to y that we all have instance after instance of individuals who have been suffering greatly. i this morning as we opened this

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David Dreier: it has been absolutely devastating. friends who've lost their homes, lost their jobs, lost their savings, we are dealing with what obviously is a very, very difficult time. that's the reason that there is such passion on this debate. now i quoted earlier during the

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David Dreier: not work. i say after eight years of this roosevelt administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot. now, mr. speaker, that is the reason that we feel that we can't just say no, we know that that is not the panacea that many people believe it is and

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David Dreier: later, in 1962. and in that speech he said, to increase demand and lift the economy the federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the

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David Dreier: federal treasury. in fact, the top income tax rate was cut from 90% to 70% and revenues to the federal government increased by 62%. it actually grew revenues to the treasury by reducing those rates. also at that same period of time, tax collections from the

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David Dreier: very privileged to come here following the 1980 election and we had the last serious economic downturn that we faced as a nation. nearly three decades ago. and ronald reagan pursued the same policies that were pursued by john f. kennedy. he brought about sweeping

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David Dreier: that means those in the top 10% of income levels actually had an increase of nearly 10 percentage points, nearly 10 percentage points, in the flow of revenues that came in from the federal treasury. or actually they were paying more in taxes, from 48% to 57%,

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David Dreier: stimulus working group that was put together by leader boehner and chaired by our distinguished whip, mr. cantor, used these models of proven examples, not the failed policies that were pointed to by secretary morgenthau in 1939, but the success following the 1961 cut and the 1981 cut.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: together. we're going to continue to fight on behalf of that. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney, is recognized for five minutes. mrs. maloney: thank you very much, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, today we took a historic step toward economic

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Carolyn B. Maloney: recovery and four financial jinalts took another important step in announcing that they will impose a moratorium on mortgage foreclosures. in response to a request from congress during hearings chaired by chairman frank, citigroup, morgan stanley, j.p. morgan and

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Carolyn B. Maloney: to implement a new plan to reduce foreclosures and to help americans stay in their homes. we cannot solve our economic crisis until we solve our housing crisis and lders of our financial sector have the ability and responsibility to help lead our recovery.

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Carolyn B. Maloney: example, to take similar steps to help americans stay in their home. mr. speaker, i would also like to really underscore the importance of the vote, the historic vote that we had a chance to vote on today, and i cast a ballot to help create

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Carolyn B. Maloney: and as i noted, the private sector is also playing a crucial and important role. if we work together we can put america back to work. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: mr.

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mr. cassky from louisiana -- mr. cassidy from louisiana. mr. holt from new jersey. mr. shock from illinois. mr. brown -- mr. schock from illinois. mr. broun from georgia. ms. foxx from north carolina. mr. fleming from louisiana. >> mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to speak

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K. Michael Conaway: ends meet. all the things that go on during a recession, these are serious times. my colleagues have been up here all day stating over and over the lack of consideration given to our ideas on how we could have made this better.

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K. Michael Conaway: on post office namings, a unanimous vote that we would have 48 hours to look at this bill, that our constituents would have 48 hours to look at this bill, that america would have a chance to see what we were v and that was unanimous. and, mr. speaker, it's totally when things come to the house, that's one of the wonderful things about being speaker, and it is great to be speaker.

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K. Michael Conaway: going to be borrowed to pay for this bill. tucked away in the corner of one of these bills is an increase in the debt limit to 2 tril never get paid back. i had an interesting exchange with a young fifth grade for the fredericksburg, texas, last october who asked me the thingle -- single best questio

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K. Michael Conaway: federal government rarely runs a surplus, certainly never to the tune of 2 trillion so future generations will be paying interest not only on this 00 billion, but also on the 2 trillion we've accumulated for the rest of their lives and the lives of their children, and the lives of their children.

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K. Michael Conaway: are important to us. if the problems are important enough to spend money on them we ought to be spending our own money on them not future generations of americans'. i appreciate the time, i wanted to express how disappointed i am in the action of the house today in passing a monster of a bill that does not address the

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K. Michael Conaway: the five-minute requests. ms. Foxx from north carolina. mr. fleming in -- from louisiana.