[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19558]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. LEE of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LEE of New York. For months now my constituents in western New 
York have been asking, where are the jobs? Well, take a look around. 
Are they in the recently passed national energy tax that devoted more 
than 50 of its 1,300 pages to lightbulb regulation and just two 
paragraphs on carbon-free nuclear energy? Or are they in the thousand-
page, government-sponsored health care proposal without so much as a 
mention for malpractice liability reform to dramatically reduce 
premiums on struggling Americans? Or maybe they're in the recently 
passed $700 million welfare program for wild horses.
  The majority has shown it doesn't know how to create new jobs, 
outside of those for new Federal bureaucrats, but it certainly knows 
how to create new burdens for our children and grandchildren. This week 
alone, our Treasury is set to sell off a record $205 billion in debt. 
Let's start working together to implement responsible solutions to the 
serious challenges facing our Nation.

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