[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28966]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         A NATIONAL HOME RETROFIT PROGRAM WILL CREATE JOBS NOW

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH. Madam Speaker, America faces two very serious challenges 
today. The first is an economy that continues to struggle. Too many 
Americans who want to work are out of work. The second is an energy 
policy that is failing. It's not clean, it's not sustainable, and it's 
not affordable. We can address the jobs issue by taking on the 
challenge of a clean energy economy. We can create jobs. We can save 
homeowners money on their energy bills, and we can reduce our 
contribution to climate change. We can do that by investing in a 
national energy efficiency retrofit program.
  Recently, 44 of my House colleagues and I wrote to President Obama, 
urging him to act now, to use his existing authority, to use already 
appropriated stimulus funds to build a national home retrofit program 
that will create jobs. Some call it Recovery Through Retrofit. Some 
call it Cash for Clunkers. I call it a sure-fire way to create jobs, 
and to create them now.

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