[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13394]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk to you about jobs. 
I come into this Chamber often and hear my Democrat colleagues talk 
about how bad things were under the past administration, how much 
better off we are under this President.
  Well, I'll tell you one thing President Bush gave us that this 
President can't give us, and that's jobs. In 2003 we passed the second 
largest tax cuts in American history, and we had 55 consecutive months 
of job growth in this country, the longest period of job growth in 
American history.
  This President came into office, said, if you'll give me nearly $1 
trillion in a stimulus bill, I'll make sure unemployment doesn't go 
over 8 percent. Well, we're at 10, we've been here for most of his 
Presidency, and we see no end in sight.
  Well, now we're talking about the unemployed. We've got 10 percent of 
the people hurting. They're in pain. They need our help. They need 
unemployment benefits, and we want to give them to them.
  The President says, and Speaker Pelosi says, well, the Republicans 
are standing in the way. They're cold-hearted.
  No, the problem is, they can't get the Democrats to vote for it 
because they want to borrow the money.
  We've said we want to vote for unemployment benefits, we just want to 
pay for them. We've told the President, just reach into your stimulus 
bill, unfunded stimulus funds, and pay for them there. He doesn't want 
to do that because that's a political trust fund.
  He's using the unemployed as a political football, and if that 
doesn't make you mad, it ought to.

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