House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 2:09:00 to 2:12:05
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Virginia Foxx: is a component a basic building block of everything. i carolina has a great graph on this. ms. foxx: there's a chart here that shows that in addition the high rate we're going to be paying for the the president has in his budget bill, i wanted tpoint out, want to ask the gentlelady, it's

2:09:00 to 2:12:05( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Virginia Foxx

2:09:19 to 2:09:39( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: my understanding again that the president promised that he was going to cut taxes for 95% of taxpayers. mrs. bachmann: that's what he said to the american people. ms. foxx: yet he left out saying he's going to raise taxes, though, a lot more, for 100% of the people by instituting cap

2:09:40 to 2:10:01( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: and tax. again, they like to call it cap and trade, but it's going to be cap and tax. because as you so eloquently pointed out, it's going to raise the cost of energy for everybody in this untry. and these people, i think they're just playing god. i think they think that we human

2:10:02 to 2:10:22( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: beings are going to offset the action of the sun. they think they're gods. and they're going but i wanted to point out something tonight that we haven't said that i think is very important to point out, and i think our colleague from new jersey reminded me, this is something we should be saying, we know as republicans that

2:10:23 to 2:10:43( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: americans are hurting. we know lots of people in our districts who are suffering as a result the actions and the policies that have been taken, partularly in the last couple of years. and we don't wanthat hurt to go on. so republicans have been offering alternatives. the democrats are accusing us of being the party of no.

2:10:44 to 2:11:08( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: you know, that's a cute little thing that they can try to hang around our necks, but i saw something today in "roll call," can't take the credit for it, wish i could, i love the way cartoonists can sometimes put in just a couple of words what we're thinking about. but there's a cartoon that says,

2:11:09 to 2:11:29( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: the party of oh, showing a picture of a donkey. i like that. we are not the party of no. we've presented alternatives. last year, we presented alternatives when it came to energy. we had an all of the above energy plan. we have an all of the above budget. excuse me, we have an

2:11:30 to 2:11:51( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: alternative to the budget. we had an alternative to the stimulus. but we're being accused of being the party of no, but i think calling them the party of o is the appropriate thing to do. because they d't want to take responsibility. it's all a sham. i tell you again, this place reminds me of the emperor's new

2:11:52 to 2:12:05( Edit History Discussion )

Virginia Foxx: clothes. you know, there's this feeling that there's something out there, and it's going to take people who are willing to say the truth to tell the american