Tuesday, November 22, 2005

The chair recognizes the gentleman from Mississippi...

And congratulates Rep. Gene Taylor, a very conservative Delta Democrat, for stating the painfully obvious as Congress slashed the budget for those not wealthy or defense contractors:

Mr. Speaker, in south Mississippi tonight, the people who are living in two- and three-man igloo tents waiting for Congress to do something, have absolutely got to think this place has lost their minds. The same Congress that voted to give the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans tax breaks every time . . . suddenly after taking care of those who had the most, we have got to hurt the least. Folks, this is insane. This is the cruelest lie of all, that the only way you can help the people who have lost everything is by hurting somebody else.

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