[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 26 (Friday, February 26, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H936]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     LET'S GET PEOPLE BACK TO WORK

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the number of new unemployment benefit 
claims jumped last week to 496,000 Americans. More people out of work, 
more people looking for those promised jobs.
  Meanwhile, a year later, we're bogged down debating the 
administration's $1 trillion government-run health care bill, a 
government-created problem that most Americans flatly reject.
  Our priorities should be getting people back to work. Get government 
off the back of small businesses, the real creator of jobs.
  But the talk around town is to raise taxes. John Marshall said, ``An 
unlimited power to tax involves the power to destroy. There is a limit 
beyond which no institution and no person can bear taxation.''
  Tax hikes for more Federal boondoggles won't create any jobs. Leave 
money in the hands of the people who earned it, the American public.
  Meanwhile, 15 million Americans are unemployed.
  And that's just the way it is.

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