[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 111 (Tuesday, July 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H6048]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. BLUNT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BLUNT. Madam Speaker, I rise again today because southwest 
Missourians keep telling me that they're expecting us to keep our eye 
on the ball. The most important thing they want us working on in the 
House is jobs--that's J-O-B-S, Madam Speaker. But most of the bills 
we've considered here on the House floor have exactly the opposite 
effect.
  Southwest Missourians know the difference between good policies that 
put people back to work and the tax-raising, job-killing agenda of the 
majority in Washington.
  Madam Speaker, there is and has been a bipartisan resistance to this 
extreme agenda, but the majority does whatever is necessary to pass 
these bills. With government control of health care and the House-
passed national energy tax of cap-and-trade, costs go up and jobs go 
down. Despite promises that the $862 billion so-called stimulus bill 
would keep unemployment below 8 percent, here we are today, Madam 
Speaker, with an unemployment rate of over 9 percent per month.
  Our top priority must be job creation. The government can't create 
private sector jobs, but it sure can pursue smart policies that help 
create those jobs.

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