[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18498]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. WALDEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WALDEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to continue this question of: 
Where are the jobs?
  The gentleman who spoke just before me is from Michigan, where their 
unemployment is upwards of 14 percent. Oregon's unemployment rate is 
now over 12.2 percent and is second only to Michigan.
  Our basic industries have been shut down. My part of the State, by 
Federal policy, prevents us from even harvesting burned dead trees in a 
timely manner from our Federal forest lands and accessing our 
resources. Now along comes legislation that says if you take woody 
biomass off Federal land and use it to make new, clean, efficient 
energy, if it comes up as certain types of stands, it doesn't count. 
It's not renewable. So the jobs that would go with the creation of that 
were really diminished or were taken away fully by the cap-and-tax 
legislation, which we know is going to cost 1 million or 2 million jobs 
in this great State of ours.
  I was out in John Day and Nyssa and Burns this weekend and Baker 
City. Everywhere I went at town meetings, the rooms were full, and 
people were asking, What are they doing to us in Washington? Where are 
the jobs?

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