[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18481]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       RISING UNEMPLOYMENT RATES

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, last week my home State of Minnesota saw 
the unemployment rate rise once again, while seeing its exports drop by 
almost 20 percent from just 1 year ago.
  The number one priority of this Congress and this administration 
should be job creation. But it's clear that the economic stimulus 
policies being pursued in Washington are failing. Congress has missed 
important opportunities to pursue real policies that will put 
Minnesotans and Americans back to work.
  Instead, we've seen reckless spending and reckless borrowing at 
unprecedented rates, so much so that the fact now is that every man, 
woman and child in our country owes over $37,000 as their share of the 
national debt.
  Mr. Speaker, we should be reforming health care without throwing even 
more new taxes on the backs of families and small businesses, and we 
should be giving priority to helping small businesses, our number one 
job creators, to put Minnesotans and Americans back to work.

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