[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1590-1591]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         PUT AMERICANS TO WORK

  (Mrs. SCHMIDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHMIDT. Mr. Speaker, Americans are hurting. One year ago, this 
Congress passed a $787 billion stimulus bill which was supposed to keep 
unemployment under 8 percent, but since its

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enactment more than 3.5 million jobs have been lost.
  The national unemployment rate remains around 10 percent, and in Ohio 
it is worse. Our unemployment rate is nearly 11 percent, and the real 
unemployment rate in some areas in my district is over 20. By all 
measures, this stimulus bill has failed to create jobs.
  Congress needs to act to provide the environment for private-sector 
job creation. Instead, this Congress continues to seek solutions that 
tax too much, spend too much, and borrow too much, creating massive 
debts for our children and our grandchildren. Let's focus on getting 
Americans back to work. More government borrowing and spending is only 
heaping more and more debt on our children and grandchildren and 
disincentivizing the job creators from creating the jobs.
  Let's work with solutions that put Americans to work, not take them 
from them.

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