Paul Broun said "I didn't buy the Democratic Treasury Secretary under a Republican President because that's exactly what Hank Paulson is. He's a Wall Street insider, a Wall Street banker. Wall Street believes in big government. That's the reason they support the Democrats. They overwhelmingly support Democrats financially. That increase in 2008, under Bush, is principally because of the TARP bill that a lot of people didn't like. I did not vote for that. I've argued very much against it, and I have been a strong critic of the Bush administration's being big spenders, but they were pikers compared to the Pelosi Congress ever since she has been in charge. And even that is just miniscule compared to what has happened just over the last 16, 17 months." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJune 9, 2010

I didn't buy the Democratic Treasury Secretary under a Republican President because that's exactly what Hank Paulson is. He's a Wall Street insider, a Wall Street banker. Wall Street believes in big government. That's the reason they support the Democrats. They overwhelmingly support Democrats financially. That increase in 2008, under Bush, is principally because of the TARP bill that a lot of people didn't like. I did not vote for that. I've argued very much against it, and I have been a strong critic of the Bush administration's being big spenders, but they were pikers compared to the Pelosi Congress ever since she has been in charge. And even that is just miniscule compared to what has happened just over the last 16, 17 months.

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Paul Broun

Republican · Georgia

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govinfo.gov

Jun 9, 2010

Editor's note · Context

Speaker Broun discusses the implications of the TARP program and critiques both the Bush and Pelosi administrations.

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