[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                JOB CREATION AND THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the press 
reported that Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans was going to travel 
the country and focus like a laser on the issue of jobs, jobs, jobs, 
jobs, said the headline. He is going to travel from city to city and 
talk about jobs in America, that jobs are the most important issue.
  Today we read that his first stop is going to be in Iraq. I guess 
maybe that is because that is where the Bush administration is creating 
jobs as they seek to build new hospitals, they seek to build schools 
that they will not build in this country, hospitals that they will not 
build in this country, sewer systems that they will not build in this 
country. We see these exorbitant contracts being led through Bechtel 
and Haliburton. I guess that is where the jobs are from the Bush 
administration, and that is why the Secretary of Commerce is going 
there instead of going to the Midwest where hundreds of thousands of 
people have lost manufacturing jobs or anywhere else in this country 
where over 3 million people have lost their jobs and 9 million people 
are unemployed.
  The Secretary of Commerce would do well to travel the country, as 
opposed to going to Iraq.

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