[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15700-15701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        ECONOMIC AND JOB GROWTH

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, you know last night I came down and had 
a little bit to say about the jobs, 146,000 new jobs that this economy, 
this private sector has grown in June, and near historic lows in 
unemployment at 5 percent.
  And with the economic growth, the tax reductions, our deficit will be 
$100 billion lower than original projections. And we are going to 
continue to build on all of this.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, I want to call attention to another article, this 
one on spending regulation keeps growing. And I think that is one of 
the things that we continue to look at and one of the reasons that we 
are addressing

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some of the bills and legislation that we are this week.
  It is also the reason that we continue to address waste, fraud and 
abuse in this Congress, finding ways to reduce the cost of government 
so that this economy will continue to move forward and continue to 
grow.

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