Rob Bishop: “I, like many people, perhaps I'm a little bit older than a lot of people here, but I was born in the early 1950s. This…”

“I, like many people, perhaps I'm a little bit older than a lot of people here, but I was born in the early 1950s. This was the Eisenhower era when the United States was taking its role as the true leader of the world. It was an era of optimism. It wasn't always smooth sailing at all times, because we clearly remember the economic conditions when Ronald Reagan became President equaled and surpassed the situations we are facing today. That was an era when mortgage rates were 20 percent, and inflation was 14 percent. Unemployment was in the double digits throughout this entire country. And yet, at that time, in the 1980s there was something within the core value of American citizens that allowed them to respond and to rebound and to solve that problem. And, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Burgess of Texas, I am convinced that within the core value of Americans today we still have that which it takes to respond and rebound to face this situation where we are and to move forward in a positive way. We will succeed at this time. There is nothing that will hold us down.”