[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CREATING JOBS WHILE CLEANING UP THE ENVIRONMENT

  (Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TIM MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, since the $862 billion 
stimulus bill was signed into law last February, nearly 3 million more 
Americans have lost jobs. The projected deficit for this year is $1.3 
trillion, second only to last year's $1.4 trillion. It's time to stop 
Washington's wild spending and start creating hometown jobs. Families 
want paychecks, not unemployment checks. That's why we introduced a 
bipartisan American Conservation and Clean Energy Independence Act, 
H.R. 2227, which opens up the U.S. coasts for environmentally 
responsible oil and gas exploration.
  This bill produces 1.2 million new, good-paying jobs and an $8 
trillion economic boost over 20 years. We will clean up America's 
waterways. We will clean our air by replacing old coal plants with new 
clean coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and geothermal energy generation. We 
will conserve energy by rebuilding our old infrastructure and a smart 
grid. Americans will modernize buildings to cut energy waste by 25 
percent. We stop spending hundreds of billions of dollars on OPEC oil. 
We stop borrowing from China, and we do all of this without raising a 
single tax.
  Join me in supporting H.R. 2227 with new jobs for a new energy-
independent America.

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