http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=72542Pelosi: 'Midterm Elections Are a Referendum on Bush and Republicans' Failed Economic Policies'
9/15/2006 2:10:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi;
http://democraticleader.house.govWASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today in response to remarks President Bush made at a White House press conference today that he hopes the midterms elections are based on economic performance:
"The upcoming midterm elections are a referendum on the failed economic policies of President Bush and Republicans that are leaving middle-class families behind.
"The economic record of President Bush and the Rubber Stamp Republican Congress is woeful. The middle class is being squeezed as more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Real income is down. Paychecks of full-time workers are down. The President's record of job creation is the worst since Herbert Hoover. Yet health care costs are at a record high, student loan rates are at their highest in six years, and energy costs are draining more and more from the pocketbooks of American families.
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