House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 1:58:05 to 1:59:10
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Yvette Clarke: jersey. i think they're worried because they know. the american people get it that they're going to have to pay the bill. mr. garrett: the american people get it. althgh we did hear that from our president here a couple of weeks ago. he said, i get. it unfortunately i don't think he does. i think what he does get is the idea of a new movement tt he is leading and that is a

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Speech By: Yvette Clarke

1:58:23 to 1:58:43( Edit History Discussion )

Yvette Clarke: movement of redistribution of the wealth in this country and basically it's doing this by burdening those on the responsible taxpayer, responsible family, responsible american and put it on the irresponsible one. and it's sort of funny. maybe funny is not a pleasant word for this, but if you look at the budget documents that came out, the title of it is an era of responsibility. so this is anything but an era of responsibility.

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Yvette Clarke: i'll close on this and yield back to the gentlelady. just as i was hopeful in 2006 and 2008 for the democrat leadership that they would be responsible in this area, i honestly was hopeful that when president obama became the president that he would fulfill his pledge, that he would give the american public and all of news congress, the opportunity to have five days to actually

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Yvette Clarke: have any bill up on the website so they could see it and read it and comment on it otherwise