[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13389]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         IT'S POLITICS AS USUAL

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, last week, President Obama was 
in Holland, Michigan, announcing the award of an economic stimulus 
grant to a Korean Company: 300 jobs, $150 million, all at a cost of 
$500,000 per job, all financed by the American taxpayer.
  Every Republican in this Chamber voted against the stimulus because 
we don't think that having the Federal Government pick winners and 
losers is a way back economically. We don't think borrowing over 40 
cents for every dollar that we spend is the way to create jobs. We 
don't think that this out-of-control spending and piling mountains and 
mountains of debt on future generations is the kind of America that our 
Founding Fathers envisioned.
  But then the President, while accepting our State's gracious 
hospitality and respect for his office, chose to take a cheap, 
partisan, political shot at Congressman Pete Hoekstra, whose district 
he was in. President Obama is proving himself to be the most partisan 
President in our Nation's history, and instability will not create 
jobs. Instead, it's politics as usual. It is certainly not change that 
we can believe in.

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