[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28196]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             WHO KNOWS, MAN

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, the unfolding scandal of phony or 
inflated job claims from the so-called stimulus bill should shock the 
conscience of the Nation and permanently stain the reputation of this 
Congress and this President.
  But it gets even worse if we take them at their word. As of this 
morning, the administration claims that in my Fourth Congressional 
District of California, the brain trust at the Treasury has spent $182 
million to save or create all of 168 jobs. That is $1.1 million per 
job. They claim to have saved or created 110,000 jobs in California. 
But 75,000 of those 110,000 jobs occur in a single ZIP code, 95814. 
What's 95814? That's the ZIP code that encompasses the State capitol 
building and the State bureaucracies.
  Stimulating the economy? Mr. Speaker, all we're stimulating is 
government at the expense of the economy.

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