[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         VOTE FOR THE STIMULUS

  (Mr. KUCINICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KUCINICH. Madam Speaker, we learned today that more Americans are 
applying for jobless benefits. We also learned that, according to 
Moody's Economy.com, that the measure that is before us may not create 
as many jobs as we had hoped, perhaps only 2.2 million jobs by the end 
of 2010, leaving unemployment hovering around 10 percent.
  Look, I understand the limitations of this bill, but we have to 
recognize something: Government spending is stimulative. We have to 
stimulate our economy. We have to do everything we can right now to try 
to lift America up.
  Now we can debate the details of this bill, and they should be 
debated, but one thing for sure, we need to pass this stimulus. And we 
are probably going to have to come back here and pass another stimulus, 
which I hope will focus on putting millions of people back to work, 
rebuilding America, rebuilding and building a new energy 
infrastructure, and making massive investments and moving our health 
care system in a new direction. Vote for the stimulus.

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