Joe Cunningham: “it is just wonderful being on the House floor with no partisanship. Is not it wonderful for Democratic leaders to stand…”

“it is just wonderful being on the House floor with no partisanship. Is not it wonderful for Democratic leaders to stand up and say how bad the Republicans are doing, no matter what bill we have up here? We want to throw people out of houses, we want to do this, our economic policies are terrible, it is destroying the country. Well, there is an election coming up, Mr. Speaker, and they are desperate. In 1993, they had the highest taxes against anybody ever. They cut military COLAS, they cut veterans' COLAS, they cut the gas tax. When they promised tax relief on the middle class, they increased that tax on the middle class. And then in 1994, we limited the tax on Social Security, we restored the veterans' and military COLAS. We cut the gas tax that they had in a general fund. And guess what, we eliminated most of their stuff. And in 2000 there started to be a recession, and we had tax relief. According to Alan Greenspan that recession slowed, and then we had, guess what? 9/11. The billions of dollars that it took to restore not just New York, the Pentagon and the war on terror, but look at what it did to the stock markets and the economy. So I would curb a little bit of the partisanship from the Democrat leaders. They want this body, the other body, and they want the White House, and they are likely to say just about anything when they get up here, but it is not true, Mr. Speaker.”