[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18501]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        THE JOBS WERE IN WYOMING

  (Mrs. LUMMIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. LUMMIS. Mr. Speaker, ``where are the jobs?'' could be answered 
in one word, in my State of Wyoming. We were hiring people when our 
energy industry was robust from other States that were losing jobs, 
like Michigan. But the cap-and-trade bill that passed this House last 
week changed coal bonus payments from being paid over 5 years to now 
being paid in one lump-sum payment.
  We are going to destroy jobs in Wyoming. So the people who moved from 
Michigan to Wyoming to find good-paying jobs are now going to have to 
return to Michigan or stay in Wyoming and be unemployed.
  It is because of the activities of this Congress. This Congress has 
not been happy to watch States like Michigan suffer. They have decided 
to make States like Wyoming, that were producing energy for this 
country, suffer right alongside States like Michigan. Our State, which 
had a healthy economy before cap-and-trade, before the Obama 
presidency, is now suffering just like the rest of the Nation. Our 
unemployment has doubled in Wyoming, Mr. Speaker.

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