[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 19562-19563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. SHUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, the Obama administration and congressional 
Democrats promised us that the trillion dollar stimulus that they 
passed and put into law would create jobs immediately. Well, last month 
alone we lost almost a half-million jobs, unemployment stands at 9.5 
percent and going higher. It's clear that the stimulus package didn't 
work.
  And their response has been, first, they passed an energy tax that's 
going to make America less competitive and drive American jobs 
offshore.
  They're now in the process of increasing spending in the 
appropriations process by 12 percent.
  And now this week they're trying to ram down a health care plan 
that's going to raise taxes on American business, cost jobs, and force 
people into a

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government-run, rationed health care plan.
  All one has to do is look at this chart to understand the 
complexities and the inefficiencies they're going to put into this 
system. I might add this is a chart that they won't allow Republicans 
to mail out to our constituents to try to explain the complexities that 
they're going to put into health care.
  The height of hypocrisy, though, was when in committee Republicans 
offered an amendment that would force all Members of Congress to 
participate in their health care plan, and what did they do? They voted 
it down. They won't allow the Congress to be in the health care plan 
that they're trying to pass.

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