[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3829]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SAVING OUR JOBS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, unfortunately, there are still 
obstructionists who are attempting to obstruct this bold plan to create 
jobs in this country of President Barack Obama, and you will hear a lot 
of smoke in the next 24 hours about that. I thought it was helpful to 
look at some objective assessment of this bill that was performed by 
Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared 
Bernstein, an economist in the office of the Vice President. This 
assessment has shown that this will create or save 3.5 million jobs for 
Americans in the next 2 years.
  All across this country, and in the Second District of Texas it has 
been shown that 8,800 jobs will be saved. And people have said these 
are somehow make-work jobs? We on this side of the aisle don't think 
that teachers are make-work jobs, and their jobs are going to be 
preserved all across the country with this bill. We don't think 
firefighters are make-work jobs. We don't think that construction 
workers are make-work jobs. And 90 percent of these jobs will be in the 
private sector, Madam Speaker.
  These are honest, paycheck-every-Friday jobs that are going to help 
to save this economy. I hope the obstructionists will realize these are 
saving jobs today and tomorrow and vote for this bill.

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