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On the recordJuly 21, 2010
I know our colleagues again continue to want to rewrite history, but it's just not something we're going to let you do. Our economy was doing great until you all took over the Congress in January of 2007. You keep blaming what happened in the last few months of President Bush's Presidency on President Bush. But you were in control of Congress. You've been in control. And you have to take the responsibility for what happened. The job losses came on your watch. We had a $200 billion deficit when you took over the Congress, and you have caused the deficit to go up. It is Democrat policies which have created the problems, not the Republican policies. On Monday, President Obama took to the Rose Garden to criticize Republicans for insisting that new government spending to extend the Federal unemployment insurance program be paid for by cutting government spending elsewhere. Ironically, in another speech in the Rose Garden last November, President Obama took the opposite position, touting his signing an extension that was 'fully paid for.'
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

The speaker addresses economic responsibility and critiques Democratic policies during the Bush and Obama administrations.

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