[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                     TWICE THE JOBS, HALF THE COST

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, several weeks ago, when the Democrats shut 
the Republican Party out of negotiations and from having any input on 
this alleged stimulus package, the big spending package, $836 billion, 
the Republicans had their own set of hearings. They were open to the 
public and open to Democrats.
  The result of the Republican Working Committee, according to the 
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, was a plan, an alternative, 
that created twice the jobs at half the cost. Now, just roughly, the 
Democrat proposal creates 3.7 million jobs at a cost of $830 billion. 
The Republican plan creates 6 million jobs--over 6 million, in fact--at 
a cost of just less than $400 billion.
  Tax breaks that are targeted at job creation, tax breaks that are 
targeted for small businesses, tax breaks for people who are unemployed 
so they would not have to pay taxes on their unemployment insurance, 
these are things that we need. Twice the jobs, half the cost.

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