[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18499]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   JOBS ARE HEADED TO INDIA AND CHINA

  (Mr. UPTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. UPTON. Mr. Speaker, the question of the day is ``Where are the 
jobs?'' I will tell you where they're not. They're not in Michigan. Our 
unemployment is 15.2 percent. And sadly, in this House, we passed an 
awful energy bill a couple of weeks ago called cap-and-trade. That bill 
will add nearly a trillion dollars to the cost of businesses and homes 
across this country. Does that help with jobs? Absolutely not.
  In fact, one of my constituents in Michigan said their utility 
increases, their electricity costs will go up by nearly 40 percent by 
the year 2024. Is that going to help with jobs? Absolutely not.
  Did the Rules Committee allow us to add jobs with an amendment that 
would build perhaps as many as 100 new nuclear reactors in this 
country, tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of jobs? No. The Rules 
Committee said, You cannot offer that amendment.
  Now, where are the jobs going? They're going to India and China. Did 
you happen to see on July 16 The New York Times where Secretary Chu 
said that if China's emissions of global warming gasses keep growing at 
the pace of the last 30 years, the country will emit more gasses in the 
next three decades than the United States.
  Where are the jobs?

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