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




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, let me ask a question. I don't know if it 
has been asked yet today. The American people want to know, where are 
the jobs? We have a Congress that has gone off the tracks. A trillion-
dollar stimulus package, that's thousand-dollar bills stacked 63 miles 
high. Did we get any jobs? No. We have a budget with a $1.2 trillion 
deficit built into it. Are we going to get jobs? No. We are going to 
get inflation and higher interest rates.
  We have a cap-and-tax bill that is going to kill American jobs by 
raising the cost of our traditional sources of energy, coal, nuclear 
and oil. We have a health care bill on the agenda before the Congress 
today that is going to kill jobs and raise the cost of health care to 
the American people rather than contain the cost and create more choice 
and more competition for the American people.
  This Congress is out of control, and the American people want to 
know, Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs?

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