Whose Side Are You On?

Floor Speech

Mr. KAGEN. Mr. Speaker, everyone in Wisconsin wants to know the answer to the question: Whose side are you on?

Yesterday, the partisans in the United States Senate voted to return to the good old days--to the good old days of unregulated financial markets, of voodoo economics on Wall Street, and of the continuing deregulation of big banks on Wall Street.

We cannot afford to go back to the losing policies of the Bush administration when Wall Street was allowed to consume the wealth of an entire generation. People in Wisconsin believe if you're too big to fail, then you should not exist. People in Wisconsin know that we are on their side and that, when Wall Street innovates, Main Street pays the price.

We have got to work hard together to catch all of the crooks and to follow their trails wherever they may lead. We have to make certain that we balance our budgets, that we live within our means, and that we rewrite our financial regulations to make things fair for people on Main Street. That's what we have to do together.

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