[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1591-1592]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  WHERE, OH WHERE, HAVE THE JOBS GONE?

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, where, oh where, have the jobs gone?
  Where, oh where, can they be?
  With the people so mad and the economy so bad
  Where, oh where, can the jobs be?
  Well, the administration is planning on killing the Constellation 
space program at NASA. This will cost about 7,000 scientists and 
engineers their jobs at NASA in Houston. About 30,000 people nationwide 
in related work will be looking for jobs.
  NASA has led the United States into being the world's greatest 
exploration country, and now the shuttle program is also ending. So in 
the future, if Americans wish to travel in space, they

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will need to hitch a ride with the Russians because we won't have the 
vehicles to travel in space. And of course China intends on being the 
number one space exploration country in the future as well. It looks 
like we are giving away our leadership and our dominance in space.
  So where, oh where, have the jobs gone?
  Where, oh where, can they be?
  They are going overseas to the Russians and Chinese
  That's where they shall be.
  And that's just the way it is.

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