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




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, California unemployment is at 11.6 percent, 
and State Democrats in California destroyed the job market and the 
manufacturing base there through bureaucratic overregulation, 
unrealistic mandates and punitive fees and taxes. Congressional 
Democrats here in Washington are following California's lead with the 
national energy tax that's going to cost every American family $3,000 a 
year and with the job-killing health care plan projected to cost over 4 
million jobs.
  I've simply come to the easy conclusion that Democrats don't like 
small business. I've come to the conclusion that Democrats don't like 
jobs. Those of us in California have seen this movie before, and it 
ends like ``Thelma and Louise''--with the economy driving off a cliff 
in the Grand Canyon. And it's being driven by congressional Democrats.

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