[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18489-18490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            DEVASTATING JOB LOSSES IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY

  (Mr. RADANOVICH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about the 
devastating job losses in my district in California. This Congress, 
with the help of the Obama administration, has taken away 40,000 jobs 
and almost $1 billion of income from the great San Joaquin Valley in 
California in a foolish attempt to protect a 3-inch fish.
  The valley's unemployment now is at 20 percent, with some towns as 
high as

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40 percent. Yet, the mere flick of a switch on the pumps in the delta 
will restore 40,000 jobs at no cost to the government.
  In addition to this careless disregard for the farmers in my 
district, the Democrat leadership is now ramming through a $1.2 
trillion health care reform measure that will eliminate 4.7 million 
jobs, small business jobs, and subject farmers to $500 billion in new 
taxes. And let's not forget the $846 billion national energy tax that 
will result in a 2.3 million job loss and cause the price of everything 
on the family farm to dramatically increase.
  Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs? The Democrats are giving them to the 
little fishies in the San Francisco Bay delta. Go figure.

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