[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18482]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WASHINGTON IS OUT OF TOUCH

  (Mr. LEE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LEE of New York. It amazes me how out of touch we are in 
Washington. For months now, my constituents in western New York have 
been asking, where are the jobs, any jobs?
  Well, according to this chart of job postings, we found out where 
they are: right here in Washington, D.C., as we continue to hire 
thousands of Federal bureaucrats. It's one of the only cities that's 
growing, and all for the wrong reasons.
  It's appalling that we're continuing to grow the Federal Government 
while we're running a deficit of $1.18 trillion.
  When I ran a business, you always had a budget, and you lived within 
it.
  When you look around D.C., you see construction cranes all around the 
skyline. It's because we can't construct enough buildings to house all 
these Federal bureaucrats that we're now hiring when we have this 
deficit.
  We have to stop this excessive spending and work together to create 
the right jobs in the right sectors.

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