[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   AMERICANS ASK, WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

  (Mr. GINGREY of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, Washington just isn't listening 
to what the American people want. Take a look at our state of affairs. 
Our national unemployment rate is close to 10 percent. We have almost 
$13 trillion in debt, and our budget deficit for this fiscal year 2010 
is projected to be $1.8 trillion. And Americans keep on asking, where 
are the jobs? Indeed, where are the jobs?
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans stand ready to get spending under control 
and to pass legislation that does create jobs. Yet the Democratic 
majority refuses to move forward with even the first order of business 
in getting our fiscal House in order, and that business is passing a 
budget. Foregoing a budget resolution this year would be a failure of 
one of our most basic responsibilities and the first time that that's 
happened since the current budget rules were put in place back in 1974.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to rein in Federal spending this year, and the 
first step in that process is passing a fiscally responsible budget, 
and I urge my Democratic colleagues to do just that.

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