[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18486]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   AMERICANS WANT TO SEE WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR THEM, NOT AGAINST THEM

  (Mr. LATTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LATTA. Mr. Speaker, the people of the Fifth Congressional 
District of the State of Ohio of the United States all want a job. Last 
year at this time, the Fifth Congressional District, according to the 
National Manufacturers Association, had the ninth largest number of 
manufacturing jobs in the country. When the new numbers just came out, 
we're down to 15.
  When you look at this map of the State of Ohio, looking at Williams, 
Fulton, Defiance, Paulding, Crawford, and Huron--those are some of my 
counties--when I've got counties over 15 percent, folks back home want 
to know what this Congress is doing.
  What this Congress passed before we went on the Fourth of July recess 
was the national energy tax, the largest tax that we're going to see 
that puts businesses out, that puts people out of work, and that's what 
we're doing.
  People want to know what we're going to do for them, not what we're 
doing to them. And I'm telling you that folks back home, when I go home 
every weekend, want to know what are we doing. When you look at the 
State of Indiana right here, right next to us, they're in as big 
trouble as we are.
  When the Heritage Foundation came out with their report, of the top 
20 congressional districts in the country that had problems under cap-
and-tax, Ohio and Indiana ranked right in the top, 16 out of 20.
  We've got to do something. We've got to act right now.

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