House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 2:23:55 to 2:26:15
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2:23:51 to 2:24:11( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: dry up to some of the best organizations, ministries, churches, synagogues. this is serious, what's happening right now. mr. broun: if the gentlelady will yield, down in my part of the country, down in the southeast we have a couple of hurricane -- a coue of little hurrices a few years back, hurricane katrina and rita.

2:23:55 to 2:26:15( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Paul Braun, Jr.

2:24:12 to 2:24:33( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: if you look at the federal response and compare it to the private response, where fema came in, people are still living in trailer houses, the neighborhoods are still empty, businesses are still boarded up. but where the private sector, where churches and synagogues and other private entities went in to help these people in

2:24:34 to 2:24:54( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: need, communities are back functioning, people are back in their homes, back in their businesses. the communities are back functioning. what that shows is that the private sector works a whole lot better than how the bureaucracy works when it has all of its income branses, how it crawls slowly and can't really respond.

2:24:55 to 2:25:16( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: and now we have an administration that wants to take money away from those entities that worked the best to help people. i just don't understand it. and, as republicans, we have solutions. we're not just the party of no, as ms. foxx was saying, we've prepted solution after solution after solution.

2:25:17 to 2:25:37( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: unfortunately on the wall street bailout president bush and his democratic treasury secretary, hank paulson, wouldn consider our proposals. and our proposals were to cut the capital gains tax. that would even bring a lot of money offshore into america and would free up a lot of capital. so banks could start loaning to

2:25:38 to 2:26:00( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: banks again and banks could loan to people again. we had other solutions that president bush and hank paulson wouldn't consider. since then we've had proposal after proposal that this house, the senate leadership as well as president obama, will not consider anything that we bring

2:26:01 to 2:26:15( Edit History Discussion )

Paul Braun, Jr.: forward, which actually every single solution that we bring forward will help small businesses, it wl create jobs, just in georgia the proposal that we had on the stimulus would have created twice the number of jobs.