Democratic Partnership With the American People

DEMOCRATIC PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- (House of Representatives - September 22, 2004)

(Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, today House Democrats will announce a new partnership with the American people, a partnership that would strengthen six of our Nation's most important core values. We will put Americans back to work, make health care more affordable, hold polluters responsible for the contamination they cause, give our children the education and development tools they need to have a positive future, and restore fiscal responsibility here in Washington.

Democrats' new partnership is necessary today because a large majority of Americans have lost faith in Congress. Over the past decade, Republicans have controlled the people's House and have often strayed from these core American values.

My Democratic colleagues and I have been fighting for these causes for many years, but this is the first time we are unveiling a partnership with the American people, a promise, if you will, that if the American people put their trust in us and elect a Democratic majority in November, we will work with them as partners to make their lives and our government better.