[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 115 (Tuesday, July 28, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8902]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    TRAVAILLE, TRAVAILLE, TRAVAILLE

  (Mr. LaTOURETTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaTOURETTE. Mr. Speaker, a lot of the problems in this country 
can be alleviated with a good job. There's nothing like a good job. And 
that's why the folks in southwest Ohio were so excited last fall when a 
fresh-faced young Senator from Illinois came to town and promised that 
he would fully support the enrichment plant down in Piketon, Ohio, 
creating 8,000 new jobs. People had parades, they were excited.
  The Senator, now our President, sent a letter to our governor on 
September 2 reiterating his promise. Big groundbreaking on July 15, one 
of our colleagues, Zack Space, was there, and said there are thousands 
of jobs at stake. Our Democratic Governor, Ted Strickland, wrote to the 
President in March--Without timely approval of the loan guarantee, the 
many thousands of new jobs being created will be delayed or perhaps 
lost.
  But as it says in my daughter's favorite bedtime story, Chicka Chicka 
Boom Boom, ``Oh, no.'' What happened today was the Department of Energy 
said there will be no loan guarantee, $2.5 billion will be lost, 8,000 
jobs will not be created. But fear not, Mr. Speaker, they have not yet 
rejected the application of a French company, and the French company, 
no jobs, no investment, and rather than jobs, jobs, jobs, we should say 
travaille, travaille, travaille.

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