[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18503]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING IS HAVING DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES ON THIS 
                                COUNTRY

  (Mr. SULLIVAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SULLIVAN. Mr. President and the Democrat majority, where in the 
heck are the jobs? With this stimulus bill and more than $1 trillion 
spent and zero job growth, where are the jobs?
  With the national energy tax passed by this House, it levies billions 
of new energy taxes on the American people, costing the average 
American family $3,100 more a year to heat and cool their home and put 
gas in the tank of their car. Where are the jobs?
  On health care, our Democrat majority's $1.2 trillion government 
takeover of our health care system mandates a one-size-fits-all, 
government-run health care plan on most Americans. Their plan is to 
nationalize our health care system and create new mandates, government 
bureaucracy and inefficiency that will only serve to drive up costs of 
our health care system even more.
  Wasteful government spending is having devastating consequences on 
this country. It also could cost 4.7 million more jobs and hurt small 
business.

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