[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9262]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                          RISING UNEMPLOYMENT

  (Mr. KING of Iowa asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KING of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I sat here and listened to perhaps as 
many as 10 Democrats do their 1-minute. And at least three of them said 
something that astonishes me. They said we have already created more 
new jobs than were created in all 8 years of the Bush administration, 
or some version of that. I have no idea how that could be true.
  Now, I didn't check the Obama-sycophant-talking-points-dot-gov Web 
site, but I did everything else, and I couldn't quite find this data. 
Here is what I know: Last week, unemployment new claims were up to 
470,000. The week before it was 478,000. The monthly average was 
456,250. We have growing unemployment, not shrinking unemployment. And 
you don't have a category for jobs created. You have a category for 
jobs saved or created. That didn't exist until President Obama created 
that phrase.
  Now if you get down to 3\1/2\ million jobs left, the President could 
always claim, well, that's the 3\1/2\ million I saved. Government 
doesn't create jobs. It gets out of the way so the private sector can, 
Mr. Speaker. We need a budget, and we need a budget now.

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