[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            JOBS MORATORIUM

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, while the unemployment rate is 9.5 percent 
and while the gulf coast continues to recover from a devastating oil 
spill, the people of Louisiana are wondering what they did to deserve 
President Obama's moratorium on jobs.
  According to a recent report by LSU Professor Jim Richardson, the 
Obama administration's 6-month moratorium on offshore drilling will 
result in the loss of over 17,400 good-paying jobs in Louisiana alone, 
just another piece of the Democrat job-killing machine.
  Hundreds of millions of dollars in State and local revenue will also 
be lost as well, all in the name of a moratorium that Federal courts 
and the administration's own expert advisers have rejected completely. 
The people of Louisiana would much prefer to have jobs than 
unemployment benefits.
  It's truly unbelievable that when Washington should be focused on 
helping the gulf coast recover from a catastrophic tragedy, the White 
House is putting forth policies that do more economic damage than the 
spill itself.

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