Madam Speaker, of course what we've just heard is nonsense. If my friends on the other side of the aisle had had their way in the worst economic recession in 80 years, which was on their watch, they would have done nothing. As a matter of fact, a Republican economist, Mark Zandi, said, but for the Recovery and Reinvestment Act, we would have gone into a great depression. And that's just the way it is. ____________________
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