[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H5739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    GETTING THE ECONOMY MOVING AGAIN

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, just Friday I was in my district in Barren 
County, Kentucky--voted the number one rural county in America to live 
in--and I was at the Chamber of Commerce. I sat and talked at a 
roundtable with business leaders, people who own franchises and other 
types of small businesses, and their concerns about getting the economy 
moving again didn't have to do with George W. Bush or even when the 
majority took over in 2006. Their concern was this Congress, the debt 
from the stimulus bill that didn't keep unemployment from going above 8 
percent. They were concerned about the energy cost that is going to 
greatly affect the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, the cap-and-trade. 
And also, they were talking about how they're going to implement the 
health care bill that was passed by this majority. Those were their 
concerns.
  I left with them saying, if we got back to our belief in limited 
government and unlimited faith in the American people, that we will get 
this economy moving again and bring back the jobs they need.

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