House Proceeding on Apr 22nd, 2009 :: 0:25:15 to 0:26:20
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John Yarmuth: economies are firmly rooted in healthy environment. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut rise. >> request permission to the house for one minute. the speaker pro mpore: without objection. mr. yarmuth: for the last two weeks when i was home into my district i heard from many of my constituents who were justifiably concerned about the large amounts of deficits that we face, the borrowing that we

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Speech By: John Yarmuth

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John Yarmuth: will have to do, and the spending that we are proposing to do in the president's budget that we approved recently. you know, those who have sought to maybe take advantage of that fear have said, nobody ever borrows their way to prosperity. oh, really? in fact, virtually everyone who has grown wealthy in this

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John Yarmuth: contry, every corporation, any individual has borrowed to make that possible. and that's exactly what we are doing. we face a choic we face a choice of having a dysfunctional health care system, of having an energy system that makes us insecure and damages our environment, and having an education system that relegates our citizens to a dismal future.

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John Yarmuth: what we are cog in the budget -- doing in the budget we passed is to borrow, yes, but invest in those very important matters