[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19558-19559]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, where are the jobs?
  They're certainly not in the so-called ``stimulus package'' that 
passed this Congress and that hasn't created any jobs. In fact, we've 
lost millions of jobs since that package passed. They are certainly not 
in the cap-and-tax legislation that passed this Congress 6 weeks ago. 
That legislation will cost millions of American jobs. Mr. Speaker, they 
most certainly are not in this so-called ``health care bill'' that the 
Democrats are offering today, which will cost an estimated 4.7 million 
jobs as employers find they can't pay the taxes being imposed upon them 
and as we see those jobs going overseas to countries where they can 
afford to do business.
  This is not the right way to preserve the choice for the American 
people in their health care. This is not the right way to make sure 
that our health care in this country is available to the many, many 
hundreds of millions of people who receive it today. We need to reform 
our health care system with legislation that deals with medical 
malpractice reform, with association health plans, with things that cut 
down on the cost before we address this massive tax increase.

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