[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12176]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          THE STIMULUS PACKAGE

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Across the country, we're seeing problems with the so-
called ``stimulus package.'' When I voted against this bill, I warned 
that time would reveal its inherent flaws.
  While Americans were told that spending almost $1 trillion would 
create jobs, unemployment continues to rise. It would make sense to 
spend stimulus money in the hardest hit counties, but the Associated 
Press reports that's not what's happening.
  Instead, the massive and inflexible bill is causing waste. The 
Billings Gazette reported that a new Federal courthouse in Billings, 
Montana, will cost taxpayers an additional $45 million as a result of 
the stimulus rules.
  And now, Americans are denied the transparency we were promised. USA 
Today reports that the Web site meant to allow us to track every dime 
of stimulus spending won't be up and running for another 5 months. How 
many more jobs will we lose while we're waiting? How much more money 
will we waste? We can't afford any more of these flawed policies.

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