[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1162]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       THERE ARE BETTER SOLUTIONS

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, our friends on the other 
side of the aisle continue to frame the stimulus debate as between 
doing what they want or doing nothing at all. This is simply not the 
case, as even the Washington Post reported today.
  Since the very beginning of this economic crisis and from day one of 
this Congress, House Republicans have worked to develop proposals that 
promote job creation. Our solutions provide immediate relief to 
American families, small businesses, real estate recovery, and 
homeowners. Our solutions aim at creating jobs. We can create twice the 
jobs at half the spending. We can bring our set of proposals to the 
table in a spirit of bipartisanship. We have done so in recognition of 
the fact that millions of Americans are in financial distress. We must 
not keep quiet when we know there are solutions that can create jobs 
without burdening our children with even greater debt and threatening 
destructive inflation.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th.

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