[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 30782]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      CALLING FOR A STIMULUS AUDIT

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, American taxpayers deserve 
an audit of stimulus funds. Taxpayers have faced weeks of fake jobs in 
fake districts posted on recovery.gov. We have heard the Government 
Accountability Office announcement that one in 10 jobs are fake. Action 
must be taken.
  I have introduced the National Commission on American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act to create a bipartisan commission to investigate how 
many jobs have actually been saved or created by the Recovery Act. The 
commission will look at the circumstances in which these jobs have been 
saved or created. The commission will make recommendations on what 
works to save or create more jobs and what steps can be made to prevent 
the improper spending of taxpayer dollars, such as The Hill's front 
page disclosure today of a Democrat pollster receiving $6 million to 
preserve three jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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