[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18480]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             WE MUST WORK TOGETHER TO STOP THE UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Mr. McCARTHY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCARTHY of California. Mr. Speaker, this morning I opened up my 
hometown paper, The Bakersfield Californian. On the front page of the 
local section there is an article, Kern County's unemployment rate for 
the month of June increased to 14.7 percent. If that's a talking point, 
it's coming directly from the paper. One year ago the unemployment rate 
was 9 percent.
  The American people know that if Americans are not working, America 
is not working. My constituents ask me, Is this Obama economy going to 
improve? They continue to ask me, If you take more from what people 
earn, for the energy tax every time you turn on a light, when you go to 
health care, taxing, are you taking away the choice?
  But I tell them there is a chance for a better way. There is a better 
way to work together to focus on small business. Small business creates 
70 percent of every job in America. We can do better by working 
together and stopping the unemployment.

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