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




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I would say to the leader, where are 
the jobs? I listened attentively. I pricked my ears up. I thought I was 
going to find out where the jobs are. I didn't hear that answer.
  I looked back at what happened for the 108th and 109th Congress. 
Members of the Democrats came down on the floor and they said, Just put 
us in charge and we'll solve the problem. They won the majority, and we 
saw a hockey stick graph going downward of industrial investment. 
That's what happened to our economy; it reacted to the Democrat 
majority.
  You elected President Obama. Now you don't have any excuses, and you 
are angry because we are asking, ``Where are the jobs?''
  There are 14.5 to 14.7 million unemployed, another 6.8 million that 
are simply looking for a job that don't fit into that category, 21.3 
million people looking for jobs in the United States, all of this under 
Democrat leadership.
  We had historically low unemployment and a growing economy because we 
lowered taxes, and we kept the pressure off of regulation. You are 
turning this into the nationalization of the private sector and the 
health insurance industry, and the American people don't want to live 
in the kind of countries that exist on the east side of the Atlantic 
Ocean or north of the 49th parallel.
  Where are the jobs?

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