[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18497]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  A LOT OF TALK ON THE SECOND STIMULUS

  (Mr. ROONEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROONEY. Mr. Speaker, there has been some talk recently about the 
potential of a second stimulus package. Why would we need such a second 
stimulus? Because the first one didn't work. It's not rocket science, 
and the American people know it.
  What the American people don't want to hear is that prior Congresses 
or that prior administrations used to do this, or that prior 
Congressmen were engaged in this, that or the other. What Americans 
want now is leadership and solutions moving forward, not how things 
used to be.
  I'm new here. I came here because the American people were sick and 
tired of the way things used to work. Unemployment will soon reach 
double digits, and it already has in my district, the 16th District of 
Florida.
  The first stimulus didn't work because the Federal Government is not 
capable of taking taxpayer money and properly redistributing it. So 
let's have a second stimulus package. Let's give tax breaks to small 
businesses and to small business owners. Let them hire and keep the 
people that they want to work for them. That's the American way. 
America works when people make it work, not when the government takes 
over.

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