[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1592-1593]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            IT'S ABOUT JOBS

  (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. Where are the jobs? That's what the folks in 
East Alabama and around the country want to know.
  A year ago, when the President came in, we thought he was going to do 
something about it. Unfortunately, his idea of remedying the problem 
was passing the stimulus bill, which I like to think of as the Obama 
slush fund/political slush fund because that's what

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it really is. If it, in fact, had been a stimulus bill, it would have 
been spent in the first year, at a minimum, instead of over 5 years. 
Instead, he didn't.
  Last month, I was encouraged when the President said he was going to 
focus like a laser on jobs this year. To that end, he has called for a 
health care summit this week. The President has got to get off his 
drive to push universal, government-run health insurance on the 
American people, and has to start talking about and working on the 
things that we really care about, one of which is getting our people 
back to work.
  What the President needs to do is to drop his push for government-run 
health care and to start working with his Treasury Department to get 
them and our banks lending again. Start working with our small business 
people to find out what kind of relief they need to start hiring again. 
It's about jobs, Mr. President.

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