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On the recordJuly 21, 2010
Sunday on ``Meet the Press,'' the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Mr. Sessions of Texas, said that if the Republicans took over the House next Congress, that we could count on the exact same agenda that we had under the Bush administration. Now, you know, there is some good news and bad news to that. The good news is we wouldn't have to fight about extending desperately needed unemployment insurance benefits to American citizens, because when the Republicans were in control they didn't pay for anything--not for two wars, not for a massive tax cut for the rich, and certainly not for a massive prescription drug program. Of course, the bad news is that we would be once again turning the country over to big banks and big insurance companies and Big Oil because, as Minority Leader Boehner said, he is for a moratorium on regulation in this country. No. I know the Republicans would like the American people to get collective amnesia this fall, but they remember, just like the elephants. They remember the Bush agenda, and they don't want that exact same agenda repeated in the 112th Congress.
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth discusses the implications of a potential Republican takeover of the House.

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