Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009

Floor Speech

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Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. I thank the gentleman.

I rise in support of this important piece of legislation and suggest that our good friends on the other side of the aisle are either suffering from some state of amnesia or maybe stuck in an alternative universe because it's pretty clear that the American people are suffering, that we are living through the worst economic crisis in almost any of our lifetimes. I don't know that there's anybody who is a Member of this Congress today that lived through the Great Depression, but there is an unprecedented crisis that the spending and appropriations in this legislation will help address beyond the important recovery legislation that we passed last week.

It is critical that we invest in the quality of public education, that we make sure that children and the frail elderly have the services that they need, that we make sure that we rebuild our infrastructure, and that we make sure that we make an important and historic commitment to improving the quality of life of all Americans. That's what this legislation will do, and I am proud to support it.

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