[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18494]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    THE FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST 6 MONTHS SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs? The President 
and Speaker Pelosi came to this House early this year and said, if 
you'll borrow and spend $1.1 trillion, which is the largest spending 
bill in American history, it's going to save existing jobs and create 
another 3 million jobs. Well, where are those jobs?
  They say, Well, you know, we had to spend that money because we 
couldn't go to the failed policies of the past and repeat those. Well, 
they would like to rewrite history. But the fact is, in 2003, this 
Congress passed one of the largest tax cuts on small businesses in 
America in our history, and it was followed by over 50 months of 
consecutive job growth, the largest consecutive period of time of 
expansion of jobs in American history.
  I would suggest to you, the only failed policies of the past that we 
shouldn't repeat are the failed policies of the past 6 months.

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