[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3762]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                          UNEMPLOYMENT IN OHIO

  (Mr. TURNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TURNER. Mr. Speaker, over the past year-and-a-half the 
administration and the majority in Congress have enacted legislation 
authorizing an unprecedented amount of government spending and 
intervention in private enterprise. I opposed many of these measures 
because I believed they spent money we don't have on programs that 
would not stimulate the economy.
  An Ohio-based economist recently released a report stating that the 
State of Ohio has lost a staggering 587,000 jobs since 2001. In 
particular, the report indicated that at the end of the last decade 
each of Ohio's 88 counties lost employment, a total of 338,000 jobs, or 
6.6 percent of all employment that year.
  Specifically, my home county, Montgomery County, was one of the 
hardest hit counties in the State and the Nation. Over the past 9 
years, Montgomery County has lost 20 percent of its total jobs and 53 
percent of its manufacturing sector jobs. Today, current unemployment 
rates in my district for Montgomery County total over 12 percent, 
Clinton County over 17 percent, Highland County over 17 percent, Warren 
County over 9 percent.
  The American people are looking for both sides to find reasonable 
solutions to these critical challenges. Congress needs to curb our out-
of-control spending and enact bipartisan, commonsense solutions to 
stimulate the economy and create jobs.

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