[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 23, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      THE STIMULUS BILL HAS WORKED

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, I thought I would never hear such 
foolishness in all my life. In fact, in California, the stimulus bill 
has worked. We have thousands of teachers that are in the classroom 
teaching. In my own district, we have a $970 million stimulus program 
that is going to provide 6,000 jobs directly to drill a tunnel through 
the Caldecott Hills so that we can deal with the transportation 
program.
  Thousands of people are working. It was David Stockman on national TV 
last week who said he no longer believes that you can move this economy 
forward by cutting taxes. And he was, as I recall, Mr. Reagan's budget 
director.
  The fact of the matter is times have changed, and this call of 
cutting taxes and ending the stimulus is a lot of foolishness. We need 
jobs. We need to put people to work. That's the role of the Federal 
Government. And I would remind my colleagues on the other side that 
every industrialized nation of the world has done more to stimulate 
their economy than has ours, and they've been more successful.
  We need a new jobs bill. We need those jobs now. And we also need to 
pay attention to what Mr. Stockman said.

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