[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19553-19554]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NO LOAN GUARANTEES TO CONSTRUCT THE AMERICAN CENTRIFUGE PROJECT IN 
                             PIKETON, OHIO

  (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask a simple question: 
Where are the jobs? My constituents along with folks from all over Ohio 
and the Nation want to know where are the jobs. In my home State of 
Ohio, unemployment has risen to more than 11 percent. We have the 
seventh highest in the Nation. Every single county in my district has 
unemployment equal to or higher than the national average, and Pike and 
Adams Counties have above 15 percent.
  Last night I was given even more devastating news: the Department of 
Energy has determined that it will not provide loan guarantees to 
construct the American Centrifuge Project in Piketon, Ohio. While 
campaigning last fall, then-candidate Obama pledged to support those 
loan guarantees. He

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wrote, ``Under my administration, energy programs that promote safe and 
environmentally sound technologies and are domestically produced, such 
as the enrichment facility in Ohio, will have my full support. I will 
work with the Department of Energy to help make loan guarantees 
available for this.'' I guess that promise is equivalent to the promise 
to save or create 3 million jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, I am asking you, Where are the jobs?

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