[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 13, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H45]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CREATE JOBS AND MAKE HEALTH CARE MORE AFFORDABLE

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Madam Speaker, as we begin the second session 
of the 111th Congress, more than 15 million Americans are looking for 
work. Our Nation's unemployment rate is 10 percent--actually, 12 
percent in the 11th District of Georgia, which is the highest level of 
unemployment since June of 1983.
  Last year, Democrats promised that borrowing almost $1 trillion on 
the backs of our children and grandchildren would create jobs 
immediately and that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent. 
Clearly, that is not the case.
  So as we start this session, I urge Democratic leaders to finally 
take some commonsense steps to create jobs and to make health care more 
affordable. That means putting an end to spending money that we don't 
have. It means not continuing to pass legislation that imposes job-
killing taxes on our small businesses, and it means passing health care 
legislation that actually reduces health care costs for all Americans 
without cutting their benefits.
  Madam Speaker, the American people cannot afford any more of the 
Democrats' agenda for killing jobs and for growing the Federal 
Government.

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