Sherrod Brown: “the Republican-leaning USA Today writes about the so-called stimulus bill. They write, ``The House takes up today a…”

“the Republican-leaning USA Today writes about the so-called stimulus bill. They write, ``The House takes up today a special wartime stimulus bill that is little more than good old-fashioned special interest giveaway. The Republican House has decided to repay corporate patrons for their years of campaign support. The House lavishes tax benefits,'' USA Today says, ``on just about everyone with a lobbyist. Companies get 70 percent of the tax cuts in 2002, and some of these breaks are permanent. These are times,'' USA Today says, ``that require everyone to put aside petty self-interest and everyday horse trading for the country's good. Yet House Republican leaders showed an unwillingness to do that with the refusal to consider federalizing the Nation's airport security system. Now they are at it again with their brazen attempt to use the current crisis to please well-heeled special interests.'' Mr. Speaker, excessive partisanship at this difficult time in our Nation's history is bad enough, but this kind of political profiteering by House Republicans is down right shameful.”