Greed. Greed. Greed. Greed is not good for America. Greed is not good for Wall Street in the long run because it really brought down this Nation to its knees in 2007-2008. Here is the greed. Here is what we are talking about. We are…
John Garamendi
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John Raymond Garamendi is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 8th congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and environmental protection during his tenure in Congress. Garamendi has also been an advocate for veterans and military families, reflecting California's significant military presence.
Thank you, Mr. Tonko. I know the normal greeting on the floor is ``the gentlewoman from Ohio,'' but I've watched this Representative work on the floor and on the committees, and while she's extraordinarily polite, I'm not sure that--well…
Thank you very, very much. For me, having arrived just 3 months ago in a special election and not being able to vote on this extraordinary stimulus bill as the three of you did, I really want to congratulate you and thank you for the work…
Mr. Kagen, I think you want to have some final words here, and then the remaining two of us, and then we will wrap this up.
We couldn't get rid of that old, broken-down Bronco, but we were in the market for a new car and we did buy one. We've gone through several parts of the tax policy and the stimulus program. And a lot of folks out there think the stimulus…
You were telling me earlier that you have some 50,000 college students in your district?
That is actually a tax reduction in the early years in allowing those expenses to be spread out.
I'd call it a boulder that she threw into the pond, and the ripples that came from that actually touched a family that my wife works with. She was at the California State fair, and this lady works with her at the State fair. The lady's…
Once again, most of these tax reductions came about through the stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was February of 2009. And I will point out, as I did at the opening, that not one Republican voted for these…
Whoa, the Cash for Clunkers, I thought you might want to talk about that. You were the author of that piece of legislation.
And, at the same time, it creates new businesses. That's a win/win in a green economy if there ever was one. I am looking over here at our representative from those four marvelous counties outside of Cleveland, and I was thinking about the…
So here is a tax credit, part of the stimulus bill, that actually provides up to 30 percent credit on the cost of one of these new energy systems, windows or solar.





