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




                    SIMILAR RESULTS AS STIMULUS PLAN

  (Mr. McCOTTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McCOTTER. Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs? They are not in 
Michigan, my home State, where we have a 15.2 percent unemployment 
rate. And what could we expect, especially when this was one of the 
driving forces behind the trillion dollar stimulus package. One could 
expect similar results, and, sadly, that's true.
  We then saw a national cap-and-tax energy tax did not create jobs, 
did not help, and now we're on the verge of a radical socialization of 
America's health care network. And what do we hear from the other side? 
Statistics but no references to the bill.
  And do you know why? Because while our health care system needs 
reform, it is not broken. The one thing that's broken is this Congress. 
And if this Congress keeps spending people's money and engaging in 
radical change to our cherished way of life, every single family budget 
in America will be broken by their hand.

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