[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Mr. MILLER of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of Florida. Mr. Speaker, Americans all over this country 
are asking: Where are the jobs? We've been promised jobs over and over 
by the Obama administration and by the majority in this Congress, but 
unemployment numbers continue to rise.
  When the President took office, 11.5 million people were unemployed. 
Six months later, that number now stands at 14.5 million Americans who 
are unemployed and who are looking for work. Where are the jobs?
  In February, when the majority rammed through a $1 trillion stimulus 
bill with zero input from my Republican colleagues, Americans were 
promised that unemployment would remain at 8 percent. Five months 
later, unemployment is at 9.6 percent and is climbing. In my home State 
of Florida, that number is 10.6 percent, the highest it has been in 
three decades. Where are the jobs?
  The stimulus bill is not working, and despite what Vice President 
Biden says, we can't borrow and spend our way out of this recession. 
Instead of spending trillions of dollars on failed programs and on 
misled policies, we need to focus on lowering taxes on small businesses 
and on families. Again, where are the jobs?

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