[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18484-18485]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                  JOBS

  (Mr. AUSTRIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AUSTRIA. Mr. Speaker, the American people are hurting. Millions 
of Americans are out of work, and hundreds of thousands continue to 
lose their jobs each month. In my home State of Ohio, the unemployment 
rate reached 11.1 percent in June, the highest it has been in decades.
  According to the Columbus Dispatch, this adds up to an additional 
33,000 jobs in Ohio that have been lost during the

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month of June, which is up from 8.8 percent in January 2009. The 
Dispatch article goes on to state that, over the course of the past 
year, 279,000 Ohioans have lost their jobs, including small businesses, 
farmers, as well as 134,000 manufacturing jobs.
  At the end of the day, I trust the American people and our small 
businesses, the taxpayers, to spend and to invest their own money as 
they see fit. That is what will get America back to work.
  Unfortunately, the other side of the aisle's economic policies have 
this backwards. The government continues to take Americans' tax dollars 
and to spend those dollars as they see fit. Not only is that 
inefficient and wasteful; it's just flat out wrong. Where are the jobs? 
It's time to get Ohio and Americans back to work now.

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