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




                            JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

  (Mr. SMITH of Nebraska asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, we were told a $1 trillion 
stimulus package would create jobs immediately. But since then, nearly 
2 million Americans have lost their jobs, and unemployment is at 9.5 
percent, the highest in 26 years. Then the House passed cap-and-trade 
legislation which will cost our country 2.5 million jobs each year. Now 
we're rushing to take up the Democrats' health care bill, which 
research shows will cost 4.7 million more jobs.
  As House Republicans offer plans and ideas to get our economy moving 
again, all we get in return is more of the same, spending and taxing, 
and it keeps yielding the very same results: Longer unemployment lines 
and a longer list of promises.
  Mr. Speaker, we need new ideas and new approaches to deliver 
different results.

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