House Proceeding 03-16-09 on Mar 16th, 2009 :: 1:48:05 to 1:52:55
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Yvette Clarke: out about the elections and that kind of thing. i would yield. this is my colleague from new jersey, scott garrett. garrett garrett just wt to -- mr. garrett: i just want to touch on that point. i do this not for any partisan

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Speech By: Yvette Clarke

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Yvette Clarke: reasons because i do honestly believe that you and i, all of us here tonight, actually, believe as the majority of the american public believes, that we are in a difficult situation, that people are hurting. jobs are being lost as your chart so adequately demonstrates there. and we don't need to be partisan about it but we do need to set the record straight and i'll tell you this little

1:48:44 to 1:49:04( Edit History Discussion )

Yvette Clarke: story. i have served here for six years now and i served on the budget committee. and i was here when the repuicans were in charge and i like you were frustrated by the fact that many times during our tenure in office when the republicans were in leadership, when the republicans were in control of the house, we were spending too much money. we voted against a lot of those expenditures but as a party we

1:49:05 to 1:49:25( Edit History Discussion )

Yvette Clarke: were. that's why in 2006 the american voters voted with their wallets, if you will, and said, let's throw them out and let's put in a party that is campaigning on a platform of fiscal resnsibility. and the reason i point out that i serve on the budget committee was because for four years when they were in the minority, they were saying a lot of the things that you and i agreed with and you and i were saying, that we

1:49:26 to 1:49:46( Edit History Discussion )

Yvette Clarke: were spending too much money, we were going in the wrong direction. so i perhaps naively hoped that when they took majority, they were going to put into practice much of what they said in budget and in the campaign trail. but you know they didn't. they didn't do it in 2006 an they didn't do it in the 2008 election and that's where we are right now.

1:49:47 to 1:50:07( Edit History Discussion )

Yvette Clarke: they have been, however, i will credit them, would be able to say they've inherited the problems and of course the facts don't speak to that as well. you're looking at a chart right there that says jobs lost since the start of the democrat majority and even without my glasses onky see at the bottom i is as a starting point and then

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Yvette Clarke: the chart goes, the line goes off the charts. all you need is a little rocket, how to succeed in business and shoot up on the end over there if you're familiar with -- familiar with that movie. you'll see during the tenure you lost the jobs. it's not only the fact that they didn't inherit the lost job control in the house and

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Yvette Clarke: senate, i have a nice little chart -- easel here, but let me show this chart. i don't whether you have one up there by you as well. the other mantra that they will say in the media and i've been on tv shows and radio sh is shows and they'll say -- shows and they'll say, didn't the democrats inherit all this spending? not exactly. not when you really look down

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Yvette Clarke: to it. let me give you one, two, three, four, five quick points. this, too, is going back to the bottom of your axis. when harry reid was in cha over in the senate. spear pelosi was now in charge, the speaker of the house. let's see what has occurred from january, 2007, to where we are now. this is february, actually march.

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Yvette Clarke: i'll just run through a few quick numbers. the omnibus, most recent, fiscal year 2009 omnibus. $410 billion. that didn't occur under republictr that occurred under democrat control. stimulus two. $187 billion occurred under democrat control and leadership. auto bailout.

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Yvette Clarke: that, too, $14 billion has occurred during democrat senate. tarp, something that i've been on the floor hours upon hours talking and railing against and how we're spending so much money there. first it was $315 billion at the end of last year and then they added another $350 billion onto that. people say we're bailing out wall street. we're just finding out now

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Yvette Clarke: where some of that money is going. apparently it's going to a.i.g. executives who made some of these great decisions that brought that company down to where it is today. in bonuses and what have you. so there's $700 billion in tarp under democrat control. this next one is pre-tarp loans. $300 billion and finally, a stimulus bill, stimulus one, that is july of last year, if

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Yvette Clarke: i'm not mistaken, $152 billion. so you add them up and i'm not going to do that in my head but you have $0 billion, $300 billion, $152 billion. this all occurred during the time that speaker pelosi and harry reid were running things on the floor. they could have stopped

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Yvette Clarke: and every one of these. they could have put any restrictions on each and every one of these. maybe the gentlelady from minnesota would like to chime in on this one and that is to talk about how they didn't put any restrictions on these points.