September 21, 2012 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H6265 and sent that bill here—both those 21st century when there was an effort threaten them not to do that, and we’ll bills—and we have not acted. We have by first-term President Bush, George choke them out. And the only people to walked away. W. Bush, calling for reform of Fannie be left are the big investment banks on Mr. Speaker, we have made our and Freddie, and I seem to recall my Wall Street that got us into the big point: Walking away has been the prac- friend from Massachusetts who resisted mess in the first place. tice of this Congress. Not getting the such reform. In fact, there were people So if you follow the money and you work done has been the practice of this here on the Democratic side of the follow the contributions, you find out, Congress. How lamentable it is for the aisle that resisted such reform; they gee, Democrats talk about Wall Street American people. But as President prevented such reform. There were as if they’re Republicans, but there are Obama said: They have a choice. May Members on the Republican side—not four times more Democrats on Wall they make it well. all of them, but there were Members Street as executives than there are Re- I yield back the balance of my time. who were calling for reform of Fannie publicans. What a shock. Because they Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Mae and Freddie Mac, but it didn’t talk a good game, I thought for so long I rise today to congratulate the Republican happen. In fact, our friends across the that Wall Street executives must be leadership in the House on their two greatest aisle were in control of the House and Republicans, the way the Democrats accomplishments this Congress: 1) thanks to Senate for 4 years. talk. Not so. President Obama got four their leadership, we have had the least pro- In 2005 and 2006, as a freshman, I times more contributions from execu- ductive Congress in modern history and 2) often heard our colleagues across the tives and their immediate family than thanks to their leadership Congress has the aisle asking how we could do such a did a guy named JOHN MCCAIN. lowest approval rating ever. terrible, terrible thing of spending 100 So, we look on further. What about Time and time again, the House Repub- to $200 billion more than we had com- jobs? licans showed Americans that they would rath- ing in. And they were right, they were How about when we have a disaster, by British Petroleum, who has been al- er play politics by putting messaging bills on right: we should not have been spend- lowed to operate in the gulf coast with the Floor that never stood a chance of passing ing $160 billion more than we had com- 800 or so egregious safety violations, in the Senate than work with us and the Sen- ing in. The Democrats were right. And but that’s okay. According to the ate on legislation our country desperately because Republicans did not stay true Obama administration, they didn’t needs. to what we had promised—our leader- House Republicans found time to vote to re- want to step in. ship just wouldn’t dig in and stop it, I read an account that at the very peal the Affordable Care Act 33 times but we even though we had a Republican time Deepwater Horizon had blown out, can’t find the time to extend the Farm Bill. President, you know, well, we’ve got a and this administration, Obama admin- In fact, halfway through 2012, the House Republican President, don’t want to istration, should have been all over Majority Leader ERIC CANTOR declared that hurt his feelings—we spent $160 billion them, the executives of British Petro- ‘‘serious legislating is all but done until after more than we had coming in. leum were negotiating with the Demo- the election.’’ So, the American public sounded like crats to be the one big oil company This is not what Americans want and the they weren’t thrilled with what they that rolled out support in favor of cap- majority should be ashamed of themselves for heard from the Democrats, but they and-trade. creating an environment where compromise is figured they’d give them a chance. So, I said I wouldn’t use the term ‘‘crap- avoided at all costs. November 2006, Democrats—who had and-trade’’ anymore, so I’ll avoid say- Mr. Speaker, I have served many years in promised to end the deficit spending— ing that. the House of Representatives and am proud took over and the deficit spending, But they had a big oil company that of the fact that I often work with my colleagues rather than coming under control, was willing to come out and support across the aisle to find solutions that make went out of sight. cap-and-trade. So certainly this admin- sense for my constituents, industry and the b 1330 istration and the Democrats in the environment. House and Senate wouldn’t want to do But this Congress, it’s been different. Their They passed the Dodd-Frank bill. It anything too detrimental to British mentality is that you’re either with us or has historic overregulation of commu- Petroleum because they’re going to against us. But Mr. Speaker, that is no way to nity banks. come out on our side. That meant that lead a chamber that represents various con- Now, why would a group who is so they ended up actually believing BP stituencies around the country. upset with Wall Street pass legislation when they said, Oh, we’ll get it under f that devastates community banks that control. are closest to the community, know PERSPECTIVE Well, they didn’t get it under control. the borrowers the best, that have been So then there was this bipartisan The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the real foundation of this country? group of experts peer-reviewing what the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- Why would they strangle out commu- was going on in the gulf coast, and uary 5, 2011, the gentleman from Texas nity banks with this massive overregu- they came back with a report that (Mr. GOHMERT) is recognized for 60 min- lation that really doesn’t hurt the mas- made recommendations of what should utes as the designee of the majority sive, big banks? be done. One of those recommendations leader. Well, someone said years ago, follow was not to have a moratorium on drill- Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, well, the money. And if you look at the ing, not only of the deep water, but my head is spinning a bit after hearing money that has been contributed to also the very shallow water. They my friends across the aisle. I heard our campaigns for many years, you find didn’t recommend it. And yet this ad- former Speaker ask about whether out that the Wall Street executives and ministration goes through and changes we’re better off now than we were 4 their immediate family normally do- the report the way it’s printed and put years ago, and actually ask how can nate about four times more to Demo- out so that it makes it sound like these people who perpetuated this economic crats than they do to Republicans. experts recommended a moratorium. disaster ask that question. And it was Now, the Wall Street executives have They did not. But that’s the way this amazing, because former Speaker to endure being called fat cats by a administration wanted to manipulate PELOSI and I were on exactly the same Democratic President, but they know, what the American public believed so wavelength. She was asking: Are we perhaps it’s a wink and a nod, I’ll call that the President could sign off on a better off now than we were 4 years you fat cats, but I’m going to destroy moratorium. ago? And I was thinking the same your competition. We’ll get rid of com- Other than those precious lives that thing that she was: How could people munity banks. We’ll strangle them were lost and those who were harmed who perpetuated this economic disaster with overregulation. They can’t make out there on the Deepwater Horizon rig ask that question? But she asked it loans. We’ll threaten them through the because this administration had al- anyway. FDIC and the regulators to prevent lowed them to continue to operate, the You heard our friends talk about the them from making loans that they biggest damage to the people in the economic disaster. Some of us remem- know are to good, reliable people who gulf area was from the President’s mor- ber back into the early point of the have never missed a payment. We’ll atorium.

VerDate Mar 15 2010 02:25 Sep 22, 2012 Jkt 019060 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K21SE7.069 H21SEPT1 jbell on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with HOUSE H6266 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE September 21, 2012 There were people who were making way, you only tax the profit. And it We’ve got a Senate down there, con- $75,000 in salary working on rigs—and eliminates deductions that actually do trolled by Democrats, who say, We’re that was the minimum, basically, from not help big oil companies. They can’t not going to do our job, and we’re what I was told by people that worked take those deductions. Only the small going to leave over and over on recess, on rigs—and that income stopped, and companies can take that deduction. and we’re never going to do our job be- those families had nothing because this So the President’s plan, when you cause, if people saw what our budget President perverted a report into mak- really look at it, instead of looking at really is, they’d get mad at us, so we ing people believe that it said we what he says, look at what he did. don’t want a budget. We just want to should cut off drilling in the gulf coast, What he did was provide the elimi- keep spending at these ridiculously and it devastated so many in the gulf nation of the independent oil and gas high levels. If we work through a budg- coast region. companies in America. et, we might have to do like the House If you want to look at what the And you don’t have to have been to did when they worked through a budg- President really thinks about big oil an Ivy League school. In fact, you’re et, and we may actually have to cut companies, it’s very similar to what is better off maybe in figuring this out if some things. said and done about Wall Street. They you didn’t, because he had a Harvard How incredibly disingenuous for any- call the Wall Street executives all economic advisor at the time. And of one in America to stand up and say, kinds of names—wink, wink, nod, nod. course, Art Laffer, I think the world of Gee, we really want to bring down our We’re going to pass legislation that him. I think he’s maybe the best eco- spending, and yet everything they pro- eliminates your competition, and then nomic advisor any President’s ever pose, except for the military, creates you’ll be in charge, and then maybe had, despite his Harvard education. But more spending. How disingenuous for you can make eight times as many you don’t have to have an Ivy League anybody in America who stands up and contributions to Democrats as you do education to understand that if this says, These Republicans want to cut to Republicans in both Wall Street and President had been successful in elimi- Medicare; they’re going to destroy among Big Oil. nating every independent oil and gas Medicare, if they’ve been awake during How would that happen? company, as his bill would have done, any of the actual bills that have been Well, if you read the bill that Presi- not only will you eliminate millions of passed by the Democrats, especially dent Obama put together—and it was jobs, including those who derive jobs during that whole long ordeal when the the second American Jobs Act that was from the independent oil and gas busi- Democrats had the House and they had filed, because I filed the first one, be- ness as well as the business itself, not the Senate and they had the White cause he ran around the country for only would you do that, you would House, and when America made it clear weeks saying, Pass the American Jobs eliminate most of the production in we do not want ObamaCare. They said, Act. There wasn’t one filed. I figure if America. We don’t care. We want it. It’s going to What does that do? That drives the he’s going to run around America say- be more government control. ing, Pass the American Jobs Act, there price of oil and gasoline way up, dra- It really was about the GRE, the gov- matically up. Natural gas, oil, all of ought to be one. So I put a two-page ernment running everything, not just that goes dramatically up, because the bill together that would have elimi- health care. By the passage of major oil companies in the world are nated the 35 percent tariff we put on ObamaCare without one single Repub- not interested in coming in and oper- every American-made good by any lican vote—not a one; it was com- ating smaller wells. They go for the big company in America. pletely done with Democratic votes, ones. If we eliminate that 35 percent tariff, this $716 billion in cuts to Medicare— also called a corporate tax, you would b 1340 the Democrats voted that in. The see companies flocking into America. That means there is no competition Democratic President signed it in. It You would see people with jobs. They to the massive oil and gas companies in devastates Medicare more than any- wouldn’t be standing in line trying to the world. I was shocked to find out in thing that has ever been done to Medi- get food stamps, standing in line trying our Natural Resources Committee care, and it was without one single Re- to get more government help. They that, if you look at all of the big oil publican vote. would have a job and all the pride that companies in the world and if you see So how in the world could somebody comes from that, of doing a good job them listed just by how much they’ve come in here or anywhere and blame and making your own money and mak- got in reserves, the American compa- Republicans for wanting to cut Medi- ing your own way. nies like Exxon are way down the list. care? Now, I blame my leadership. Any- But we have a group in this Congress, The biggest oil companies are those op- body who is around can find it. in both ends. They’re in the majority erating as single companies in OPEC We should never have agreed with the down in the Senate, in the minority nations. Democrats to that stupid supercom- down here; and it’s certainly not all of And what would this President do? mittee, deficit ceiling bill. We should my Democratic friends, but they think He would do what he has done repeat- not have. I was assured, No, no, no. the best way to help a country is just edly—he would help foreign countries. They don’t want $300 billion or $400 bil- to give away more of other people’s He would help the bigger folks, the big- lion–$500 billion in cuts in Medicare, money. ger oil companies. I’m sure it would which would be a sequester. They will If you look at the President’s pro- have benefited the fat cats, as he calls come together, and we’ll reach an posal in his so-called American Jobs them, on Wall Street, but it would agreement. I pointed out that these are Act, he told people, I’m going to just have put out of business 94, 95 percent the same people who cut $716 billion really take after Big Oil. of the oil and gas wells in America. out of Medicare in ObamaCare. So, of Well, I was one who actually read all That meant everybody’s price went up. course. I pointed out, if they don’t have 135 or 138 pages, whatever it was, and in How sad is it that one of the few prom- this supercommittee structure and the last part is where he got around to ises that he kept—I don’t know, it may refuse to let there be any agreement, Big Oil, except it doesn’t hurt Big Oil. be the main promise—was to drive up then there is no one in the country who It absolutely devastates and would the cost of energy in America. Boy, has can be blamed for cutting Medicare ex- eliminate all the small independent oil he done that. cept the Democrats. companies operating in America. And Now, I love having quotes from peo- But if they get this bill passed on the those small independent oil companies ple who talk about the Congress being deficit-raising bill and if it requires a happen to drill and operate nearly 95 the worst Congress that they can re- supercommittee to reach an agree- percent of all the oil and gas wells in call, especially Republicans, when the ment—if they can get that through and America. body at the other end of the Hall has get us to go along with it, thinking He takes away deductions of the nor- not fulfilled the obligation that they that they’re going to actually reach an mal cost of doing business that any- are required by law to do, and that’s to agreement—then they can stonewall body in business is allowed to take as pass a budget. Not in over 3 years. So and not reach an agreement no matter a deduction. Why not? It’s the cost of how are we going to get anything done what we offer, and then they get a doing business. It’s not profit. That in Congress? twofer. They get hundreds of billions in

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When on Capitol Hill wanted to do. seen a win in Iraq turned into a loss be- he was gone, President Carter called We also heard from him that in 2010, cause of just the total abandonment of Ayatollah Khomeini a man of peace. that there was a bunch elected that what we created in the way of a friend What a welcome thing. don’t understand Congress and a free in Iraq. Maliki—now, he’s no friend of He came in, and he was the supreme society. They were called ‘‘extrem- mine. He says I can’t come back in the leader when our Embassy was at- ists.’’ These freshmen that came in country. Yet if I put myself in Maliki’s tacked, which is an act of war—just as saying, You know what? Everybody situation, who is the leader of Iraq— it was in Libya, just like it is in Cairo. should pay their fair share. It shouldn’t and I know Obama has said we’re leav- It’s an act of war. Any commander be 51 percent of Americans paying for ing and we’re not leaving anybody or would make it clear, except President everybody else just because Democrats anything; we’re leaving—and if you see Carter and President Obama, that want to keep people beholden to them America is pulling out and if you see you’ve attacked American soil. You’ve so they’ll keep voting for them. Once all this radical stuff going on across attacked us. Under everybody’s form of they get more than half of all the vot- the border in Iran, well, you realize international law, you either straight- ers who are getting more than they’re America is not going to be around to en it out, or we’re coming in because putting in, we’ve lost the country. It keep any stability, and I’m going to we have a right under international will be in complete demise. It may be have to start doing what Iran says. law to protect ourselves, and if it 10 years or so, but once we get to that So what did we do? means taking your government out be- point, historically, you do not get that We created a country. We had a vic- cause of what you’ve done or have al- country back. We would not either, ab- tory. Even though President Obama, as lowed to be done or have helped fo- sent a miracle of God. a Senator, was against the surge, ev- We were told during the conventions erybody said it worked, that we’d won. ment, then we do it. that the Republicans do not have a Then he pulled us out in such a way b 1350 franchise on God. Everybody at the that he snatched defeat out of the jaws In Egypt, this administration helped Democratic convention was saying, We of victory. Now you’ve got Iraq that is bring about what they thought would love God; we worship God; we love under heavy influence by Iran. Thank be a great thing, an Arab Spring. It’s Israel; we like Jerusalem as a capital. you, President Obama. We’ve got Syria turned into an American winter. At the We heard all this stuff until there was that is run by a tyrant. Perhaps Syria same time, this administration was a vote, and, holy cow, we saw plain and was the only place we should have in- blessing and loving the Occupy Wall clear that everybody in the Democratic tervened, and this President still Street movement, even though they convention does not want God men- hasn’t gone in and helped there—oh, were clearly a bunch of Democrats, a tioned. They don’t want to hear about no. Because the 57 States that make up bunch of kids with iPads, iPhones out the Organization of the Islamic Con- God. They don’t want to hear about Je- there. There was rape, drugs, all kinds rusalem being the capital of Israel. ference were all for us going into Egypt of illegality and immorality out there and going into Libya and taking out They don’t want it. They apparently abounding. This administration is say- side more with the Palestinians than two people with whom this administra- ing this is a good thing. tion had agreements. They loved the they do those who were possessing and You see the signs all over the place. in that land 1,600 years before there idea of America taking out and helping Let me show you. At the Occupy move- take out people that were allies of was a man ever talked about named ment, you would see signs like this: Muhammad is all you can figure. King ours. They loved that. ACAB, all cops are—some people said Some of us in this body were saying, David was there in Hebron, which now ‘‘bad,’’ but I’ve been corrected. The B Don’t do this. We don’t know who’s we’re told, Oh, do the Israelis have his- stands for something to do with father- going to take over. These could be tory in this land? It’s where David some radicals who will even empower less children. ACAB, that’s at the Oc- ruled for 7 years, about 16 to 17 cen- the radicals more. I mean, you look cupy Oakland movement. You can look turies before anybody had ever heard of across at Tunisia and Libya and Egypt at pictures and see all these Occupy Muhammad. How would they not have and Iraq and Iran and Syria and Leb- movements and see ACAB everywhere. a history in that land? anon. You look at these countries and Well, I was a little shocked when my I was talking to Prime Minister come on over to Afghanistan—that this staff points out, Look at that. This was Netanyahu about the history in the President is losing as we speak—and on a wall in Egypt, and I need some- land. He mentioned the story of Ben- Pakistan, which has been harming us body to explain how, among all this Ar- Gurion, who led the ragtag forces to all they could while still taking our abic writing by the radicals that have fight their way back to Jerusalem after money. Thank you, Secretary of State charged our Embassy in Egypt, how in overwhelming forces had driven them Clinton and President Obama. You the middle of all this Arabic do we get out. The story was—and this was the look, and you go, oh, my gosh. This is ACAB? Who’s doing that? There were first I had heard it, was when the the makings. This is the massive begin- rumors of some type of collusion, but Prime Minister mentioned it to me, ning of a new Ottoman Empire that who among those radicals in Egypt is but I’ve heard it a number of times President Obama can take great credit writing ACAB, which is what you see since. He said Ben Gurion was chal- for. Yes, we’re in big trouble here in at all the Occupy movements in Amer- lenged with, What is your voucher for America, but, wow, look what he has ica? Somebody has got some explaining claiming this land? And Prime Min- helped do in the Middle East. It’s a new to do, I would think, but not to this ad- ister Netanyahu used the word, Ottoman Empire. Thank you, Presi- ministration, because this administra- ‘‘Bible.’’ I’m sure it was a Torah. He dent Barack Hussein Obama. This will tion thinks both the Occupy movement said that Ben Gurion held up a Bible be quite a legacy for you. and the Arab Spring are a great thing, and yelled, This is my voucher. I’m not one of those who says he is even though it’s brought to power radi- Do they have a history in the land? not a Christian. All I know is that’s be- cals who want to destroy America, who How blind do you have to be to not see tween him and God. What I do know is want to destroy Israel. How frustrating it? he has helped jump-start a new Otto- for our friend Israel. With cap-and-trade legislation, man Empire and left our friend and When we had friends come in here in thankfully, we had just a handful of ally Israel so vulnerable in this sea of the last hour, they were talking about enough friends on the Democratic side radicalism that he has helped bring to Fannie and Freddie. On a personal of the aisle that we were able to stop the surface. basis, I like BARNEY FRANK. He is a that, or it would have tripled or quad- How could any of us who were around brilliant guy. But it’s not that hard to rupled the price of gasoline. It would in ’79 not be reminded of President Car- go back and find quotes from him have devastated industry. Industry

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Appar- get a bunch of Democrats to go along We heard, in the last hour, about Re- ently my friends who were talking in with the Republicans that mistakenly publicans who say my way or the high- the last hour didn’t know, but PAT agree to that. way. Are you kidding me? We reached TOOMEY and some others made a pro- While standing right here in this across the aisle during ObamaCare, posal that would have caused more aisle as he came by, I asked President saying, look, there’s a bunch of these taxes to have to be paid by the wealthi- Bush a question. We had found out that things we can agree on, insurance for est in the Nation. The top 1 percent $40 billion of the $160 billion Bush stim- people in your household under 26. We paid 39 percent of the taxes. Well, if ulus was going to go to people as re- could do it for insurance across State they get 39 percent of the income they bates, even though they didn’t pay an lines. There were a number of things should, but they only get 13 percent of income tax. Standing right up there, we could agree on. the income. that’s when I asked the question: Mr. Insurance companies shouldn’t be They wanted them to pay more. President, how do you give a rebate to able to punish people for having a pre- There was a proposal in good faith by somebody that didn’t put any bait in? existing condition when the insured Republicans, we’ll raise revenue, and it It’s not a rebate. It’s welfare. Call it has acted in good faith all along the was reported here locally that, gee, what it is. way and the insurer messes them some of the Democrats said, you know, My friends across the aisle in the last around. We were willing to work things this may do the trick. We may get to hour said they couldn’t even get 100 out. They said, we’ve got the votes. We an agreement now. This is great. votes to support President Bush’s ef- don’t need your votes, we don’t want Thanks for doing this. Since you’re fort to save the economy. He’s talking them. willing to raise revenue on the rich, we about TARP. I would have supported Well, the truth is we want Demo- can reach an agreement. President Bush’s efforts to save the cratic votes on the Republican side, Then they go away, and they must economy, but unfortunately that really but we don’t want to keep taking other have talked to HARRY REID and Presi- good man, smarter than most people people’s money to give it away. I have dent Obama, and you can see the game around here give him credit for, witty, heard in here so many times, well, you playing. You have got to go back and clever, just a joy to be around, but the know, Jesus talked about helping other tell them we’re not going to reach an problem there was he listened to Hank people, the orphans and widows. Well, a agreement because our best hope for Paulson and his cronies who were going lot of us belong to churches, and we be- winning the Presidency again and hav- to bail out their buddies who give four lieve in doing that, that that is what ing control in the Senate is if we tell to one to Democrats over Republicans. Jesus said to do. America the Republicans won’t reach That’s what happened. But I can’t find anywhere in the an agreement, they are a do-nothing Paulson did get his way, but we Bible where it says, go ye, therefore, group. I hope and pray people will look didn’t have 100 people on the Repub- take somebody else’s money—because beyond that and see who really is the lican side of the aisle vote for that be- you don’t want to do your own—take do-nothing. cause there was a former FDIC Chair somebody else’s money and help the We have got jobs bills down the hall. named Isaac. He and a bunch of econo- widows and orphans and other people. This ought to be a day of renaissance. mists had some recommendations. He said you do it, you help them. When This ought to be a day when the econ- These were free market recommenda- you do that, I can personally tell you, omy is booming. We now know we tions. The projection was even then when you do that you’re individually could be exporters of energy. We could that we have at least $700 billion in blessed. That’s why Jesus said he knew be energy independent and export en- banks overseas that American compa- it would bless the giver more even than ergy. But this President has a war nies and American individuals had the one who received the gift. against all of the below—that means earned overseas. They know that if In fact, you want a real example, all of the energy below the ground— they bring it into the U.S., they’ll have what did Zacchaeus do after he met that we could be using and exporting. to pay 40 to 50 percent tax with all of Jesus? He went and cut taxes. We don’t He has got a war against it. All he is in the interest and penalties, so they just even have to get into the fact that he favor of—as he said, he is for all of the leave it in banks overseas. They’d love was going to give a 4–1 rebate, did, to above—that means wind and solar. to bring it in here, but we’re the only the people that he had wronged. You Well, guess what? The sun doesn’t al- country that double taxes because we don’t hear that around here. ways shine, the wind doesn’t always don’t let people bring in money with- To continue to hear our friends talk blow. So if that’s what you want for en- out hammering the heck out of them, about ending Medicare as we know it, ergy it means you are going to have a even though they’ve done a favor, done that disastrous ObamaCare bill will coal plant, a natural gas plant, some- a good thing and earned money over- end Medicare forever when you cut $716 thing, a hydroelectric plant, and then seas that they’d like to bring here into billion. When you create this you are going to have two or three America. ObamaCare monstrosity, it’s a govern- times as many transmission lines. Proposal-wise, all you have to do is ment takeover of so many things, and When you mandate wind and solar, say that instead of borrowing 41 cents it’s disastrous. and they don’t provide energy all the to 42 cents out of every dollar and com- Yes, we’re having to leave here, and time, they can’t, then you are going to ing up with $700 billion to give away to I’m not happy about it. I didn’t want have a source from somewhere. Now we Hank Paulson so he can enrich his another CR passed. We should have de- are doubling and tripling and going to friends under that bill—I read it. It was manded that this Democratic majority force the price of energy to go up be- a disaster. I couldn’t vote for that, be- at the other end of the hall stick cause we’re going to demand Solyndras cause I read it. It would let him give around until they got a budget as the and that kind of thing so this adminis- money to anybody he wants to, loan law requires them to do and don’t leave tration can reward their cronies. money to whoever he wants to, pay until you do it, and let’s stay here and We’re at trouble within and without. more than fair market value if, in his get it. I just want to remind my friends, this mind somehow, some way, some day, it I can promise my friends across the was reported in The New York Times, might have some possible way of help- aisle that all we have to hear is any in- December 9, 2008, ‘‘5 Charged in 9/11 At- ing our economy. clination that the Democrats, con- tacks Seek to Plead Guilty″: We don’t do that in America, and trolled by HARRY REID in the Senate, At the start of what had been listed as rou- that bill did it. That’s why you didn’t as dictated by President Obama down tine proceedings Monday, Judge Henley said have 100 votes on this Republican side Pennsylvania Avenue, if they want to he had received a written statement from

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Then this administration, President They don’t want to live under the ty- This President is trying to buy affec- Obama and Eric Holder announced they rannical rule of the Taliban. And tion from people who were bullies, who want a New York City show trial that they’re willing to fight, as they have, are radical Islamists that want to de- would have endangered New York yet and die with Americans for that free- stroy us. You’re not going to get love again, as if they hadn’t had enough dom. And so we don’t let a renegade and affection. You get contempt. It trauma, and would have put a trial in group like the Taliban that wants to helps other people join in the fight there. Immediately these guys with- destroy America be out. against us. This President is doing draw their plea. We’re not going to Make no mistake, the Blind Sheik great damage to us. And it’s time to plead guilty, we can get a show trial in was the object of release by a candidate bring his Presidency to a peaceful, law- New York. These guys who are running named Morsi in Egypt. He said, I want abiding end with the election. things here don’t know what they’re the Blind Sheik released. When I’m Things look tragic around the world doing. What a disaster that would have elected president, I’m going to demand unless we have a new Commander in been. and I’m going to get it. Chief and a new leader who wants to As far as the great contribution, the Just a day before 9/11 this year, last rein in the spending. And one thing I’ll great work that’s being done in Af- week, you had the brother of the al promise my colleagues across the aisle, ghanistan, we took a war where we Qaeda leader, Zawahiri, saying he was if you want to go back to that runaway were making progress, and here are the ready to broker a deal that would pre- spending that was too much in 2008, actual DOD numbers. You see that vent lots of violence. He also knew the that Speaker PELOSI presided over and under Commander in Chief Bush there day before that there was an obscure HARRY REID had in the Senate and that were 625 Americans, our precious, video nobody had ever seen and wasn’t ended in the last day of September, you priceless men and women, who were going to inflame anybody, but he knew want to go right back to that total killed from October of 2001 to the end that his buddies, the Muslim Brother- amount being spent, I’m with you. I’ll of 2008, 625 precious lives. hood, the Egyptian Government, the vote. I’ll do it bipartisan and I’ll bring Bush goes out, President Obama Egyptian television stations would a bunch of people with us and we’ll comes in, January of 2009, and by the convert that, translate that into a lan- bring down a trillion dollars a year in end of August there had been a sub- guage that they would inflame people spending. How about that? That’s pret- total of 1,474 additional American men that they would do violence in the Mid- ty bipartisan, isn’t it? Go back to a and women killed under Commander dle East. And they did. The second day Democratic budget of 2008. Well, I offer Obama. Not only that, 14,817 people had of that broadcasting here is Zawahiri that. Let’s see how many Democrats been wounded, Americans had been saying, Hey, I can broker a deal. Just are bipartisan enough to take us up on wounded, lose arms, lose legs, disas- release the Blind Sheik, some other it. trous disabilities, under Commander murdering thugs, and we’ll work a deal I yield back the balance of my time. Obama as compared to the 2,638 ter- out. f rible wounds that were inflicted on This administration has offered to re- Americans under Commander Bush. lease other murdering thugs of the RHETORIC VERSUS REALITY Our President has been in command Taliban and to buy them an office in The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. of 70 percent of the deaths in Afghani- Qatar if they’ll just sit down and talk. DUNCAN of South Carolina). Under the stan, though he has been commanding That’s not the way you do foreign di- Speaker’s announced policy of January half the time, and has 84 percent of the plomacy. You reward our friends so 5, 2011, the Chair recognizes the gen- wounds. others want to be our friends and you tleman from Arizona (Mr. FRANKS) for The parents of one of the SEAL Team punish our enemies so they don’t want 30 minutes. 6 that was killed on the Chinook Au- to be our enemies. This President has Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speak- gust 6 of 2011, they were in the briefing. it backwards. He said, They’ll look at er, nearly 4 years ago, Barack Obama They have said this publicly, that’s me different because I’m the first was swept into office by the strength of why I will say it again. One of the par- President to have ever grown up in a his rhetoric; but the profound dif- ents asked, ‘‘If this was so terrible, this Muslim country—the years he spent in ference between Mr. Obama’s rhetoric was such a hotbed, you knew it was a Indonesia. Well, I wonder if that might and the reality Americans have actu- hotbed, a lot of aircraft, American air- be true. Maybe they will. Maybe they’ll ally lived under in his Presidency is craft have been fired on recently, why want to be friends. something every American has a pro- would you allow this Chinook to go in? Well, the proof is in. The approval found responsibility to understand. Why wouldn’t you send in a drone?’’ rating of the United States in those Mr. Obama’s rhetoric on jobs and the The answer from the general who was Muslim countries where we’ve been was economy 4 years ago was: doing the briefing, they said was, be- 33 percent—which was terrible—under We have to have a President who under- cause we’re trying to win the hearts President Bush in 2008. And now under stands that the essence of the American and minds in Afghanistan. You’re let- this President we see a report it’s now Dream is a good job. ting our SEAL team be killed when 15 percent, under this guy who was But the reality under Mr. Obama’s you are trying to win the hearts and going to be our President and the Mus- Presidency is the highest sustained un- minds? That’s not the job of the mili- lim countries would love us. They employment since the Great Depres- tary. The military’s job is to go in, de- don’t. Because in Muslim countries the sion. The percentage of people partici- feat an enemy, and come out, and real people, the people that we really pating in America’s labor market we’ve got to get back to that. need to reach out to, not the leaders under this Presidency has fallen to 63.5 This President has presided over 70 that hate us and want to destroy us but percent. That is the lowest rate since percent of the deaths in Afghanistan, a the real people, they respect a country Jimmy Carter was President 31 years disastrous job. It’s time to bring the who understands who’s their enemy ago. Manufacturing unemployment has President home, as well as bringing our and who’s their friend. They have no fallen to its lowest levels since 1941. military home. We could just say what respect for a country that tries to do The number of unemployed Americans President Bush did in October of 2001. what would be the equivalent of a eclipsed 15 million for the first time in We are going to provide embedded child—and I’ve been there on the history. The number of people forced to troops. We are going to let the enemy schoolyard, picked on by bullies. I was work part-time for economic reasons of our enemy be our friend. Not to this little growing up. But I can tell you, I eclipsed 8 million for the first time in administration; they are the enemy. had my nose bloodied many a time. history.

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