[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18487-18488]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT JOBS

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, Americans all across the country are 
asking, where are the jobs? When President Obama brought the stimulus 
plan before the American people, he said it needed to be rammed down 
their throats quickly. He didn't allow people even the opportunity to 
read it. Not one Member who voted for the bill even had the opportunity 
to read it. But he said, don't worry. Just trust me. It will create 
millions of jobs.
  Well, now 6 months later, 2 million more Americans have lost their 
jobs since President Obama took the oath of office. And what's their 
answer? They're talking about another stimulus bill. In fact, just last 
week, Vice President Joe Biden said, We have to go spend money to keep 
from going bankrupt.
  The American people are starting to understand what's going on here 
with this Congress, the liberals that are running this place. They 
realize all they're doing is taxing and spending, and

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they're not creating jobs. They're running jobs off. The cap-and-trade 
energy tax would lose 3 million jobs to countries like China. And then 
they come back with this plan to have a government takeover of our 
health care system, a plan that would add another $800 billion of new 
taxes on the backs of American people and run off even more jobs.
  The American people know what's going on here. They want jobs, not 
these crazy liberal policies.

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