[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CONGRESS' RAMPANT ACTIVISM

  (Mr. PETRI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PETRI. Mr. Speaker, after four stimulus packages over the past 2 
years, Americans are asking: Where are the jobs? Why aren't businesses 
hiring? In a word, uncertainty.
  We've seen a great deal of activist government over the past 2 years 
with enormous budget deficits, the government takeover of car 
companies, bank bailouts, mandatory national health care, misguided 
financial regulation and more. Still, President Obama and the 
congressional leadership have additional disruptive plans on tap, 
including big tax increases and cap-and-trade legislation. Not only are 
businesses being burdened with new taxes and other requirements, they 
also know that further afflictions are coming, but the form and extent 
of those afflictions are still a mystery.
  Business people plan to succeed, but when the government is making 
major burdensome and, as yet largely unspecified, changes, it is very 
difficult to plan. Rather than hiring and investing, many are choosing 
to wait and see.
  America's working people are the victims of this administration's and 
this Congress' rampant activism.

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