[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 171 (Wednesday, November 18, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H13074]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              RECOVERY.ORG

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I represent the 16th Congressional District 
of Pennsylvania. I'm not quite sure who represents the 23rd District or 
the 65th District, since these districts don't actually exist. They 
only exist in the fictional world created by recovery.gov, the 
administration's Web site that shows how many jobs were ``saved or 
created'' by the billions of dollars in so-called stimulus money.
  For $18 million, the Treasury Department has produced a Web site that 
creates new congressional districts and then places saved jobs in those 
fictional districts. In one case, the purchase of a single riding 
lawnmower supposedly saved 50 jobs. Some companies have claimed that 
they have saved and created more jobs than the number of employees that 
they actually have. Now the leaders are talking about yet another 
stimulus package. We are about to spend our way into a fiscal tsunami, 
not economic recovery.

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