Mr. Speaker and distinguished colleagues, I am glad to be with you tonight to talk about where we have been in the 110th Congress, where we are, and where we are going, because this Congress really has changed the direction of America. If you think back to where we were over the past 6 years, this country was frustrated. Frustrated because of the squeeze on the middle class with fiscal policies that weren't working. They weren't working for the middle class and those trying to get into the middle class. They may have been working for those at the very, very tippy top of the financial scale, but not for anybody else. A frustrated middle class and an America which has come together because of a foreign policy which has made us weaker, which has ruined our reputation in the world, which has mired our brave soldiers in a civil war. They asked for change in November. And in the past 3 months we have delivered substantial change.
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Discussing the changes made in the 110th Congress and the frustrations of the middle class.
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