[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                       THE RECORD ON JOB CREATION

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOYER. I have been listening to this litany of ``Where are the 
jobs?'' I have been here long enough. Mr. Pence, you opposed the 
program in 1993. You said it would destroy this economy. You said it 
would blow deficits sky high. It created 216,000 jobs per month on 
average.
  You then supported an economic program in 2001. You said it would be 
a haven for jobs and small business and all that. You created not 
216,000 jobs per month but 4,240. Those are the figures. I'm sure that 
you will all want to come here and say, ``No, Hoyer was wrong on those 
figures.''
  Under the economic program we propose, 216,000 new jobs every month 
on average. Under your program for the last 8 years under the Bush 
administration, 4,240 per month. That is a very substantial difference 
between 20.8 million new jobs under the economic program that you did 
not support in 1993 that we proposed, passed, and President Clinton 
signed.
  So when you talk about jobs, you ought to talk about the experience 
that you've had under our program and your program. You failed. We 
succeeded. As a matter of fact, in the last year of the Bush 
administration, we lost 3 million-plus jobs. During the last year of 
the Clinton administration, we gained 1.9 million jobs. That's a 5 
million job turnaround by your economic program.
  So keep talking. America knew the difference. America made a 
decision. They said what you had been doing was not what they wanted so 
they changed. In 2006, they changed the Congress, and in 2008 they 
changed the Presidency.
  And let me tell you something. We have lost 200,000 less jobs per 
month than Bush lost in his last 3 months in office, over the last 3 
months. Now, is that where we want to be? It is not. But it is 200,000 
better than the last 3 months in your administration. Those are the 
facts. Refute them if you can. Keep talking.

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