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




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask a simple question: 
Where are the jobs? My constituents, along with those across Ohio and 
our Nation are asking: Where are those jobs?
  In my home State of Ohio, the unemployment rate has risen to 11.1 
percent. We have the seventh-highest rate in the Nation. Every single 
county in my district is equal to or is higher than the national 
average, and Pike and Scioto Counties are actually above 15 percent, 
but that number is rather deceiving. Another large percentage of our 
population has either given up looking for work right now or has taken 
part-time or temporary work.
  People in Ohio and in my district are hurting. We need jobs and we 
need them now. Only $6 million of the Department of Transportation 
Recovery Act dollars have been spent so far in Ohio. The Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act was supposed to provide immediate stimulus to create 
new jobs. Where are those jobs? People are hurting. Five months later, 
there are no jobs.
  I'm asking: Where are the jobs?

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