[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 30 (Friday, February 13, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1524]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             THE JOBS BILL HAS TURNED INTO A SPENDING BILL

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, a couple of months 
ago, the talk from congressional leadership was to produce legislation 
that was about providing jobs for America's families and small 
businesses, with lots of opportunities for our needed investments.
  Sadly, what was supposed to be a jobs bill has turned into a spending 
bill that is going to provide about a $7.70 tax break for workers while 
adding $9,400 of debt, plus or minus some, with interest, for each 
family that is going to have to be paid by our children and 
grandchildren. I think if you have got one person working in that 
family, it is going to take a few years of saving up all those tax 
credits in order to pay for this bill.
  Plus, unfortunately, we still never got guarantees that the billions 
of dollars worth of automobiles, buses, furniture, computers, and 
everything else here even has to be made in the United States of 
America. I am not very happy about that, and I don't think Americans 
should be, either.

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