[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. AUSTRIA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AUSTRIA. Mr. Speaker, as I travel across my district, whether I'm 
talking to our good farmers, small business owners or manufacturers, 
what they're asking me is, What are you doing to bring back jobs to 
Ohio? What are you doing to save jobs? What are you doing to turn this 
economy around?
  Mr. Speaker, the stimulus bill certainly has not yet improved our 
economy. This chart next to me shows what the administration projected 
would happen with unemployment numbers as a result of the stimulus. And 
what's really happening, as you can see, the dark line is what would 
happen with the stimulus package; the light line without the stimulus 
package; and most importantly, this dotted line, which is what's really 
happening and that is skyrocketing unemployment.
  In Ohio our unemployment rate has reached 11.1 percent in June, the 
highest it's been in decades; and this is unacceptable. Now if we don't 
do this health care reform package correctly, it could hurt small 
businesses and may cost jobs. We're going in the wrong direction.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask you, Where are the jobs?

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