[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      GOVERNMENT MAKING IT HARDER

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, this week the House is going to consider 
another so-called jobs bill, but what is really in this bill? Certainly 
not many private sector jobs or real help to America's small 
businesses.
  Extending unemployment compensation is necessary, but it's not 
creating jobs. A delayed fix to the Medicare reimbursement rate isn't 
creating new jobs. Billions of dollars to bail out State Medicaid 
programs isn't jobs. Welfare payments aren't jobs. We're about to spend 
$200 billion on a so-called jobs bill without creating any private 
sector jobs.
  Just a few months ago, I polled 16,000 of my constituents. Only 12 
percent of them believe that government policies are making it easier 
to create jobs. Is it any wonder that Americans have this opinion?
  The so-called jobs bill this week permanently raises taxes in order 
to pay for 1-year tax extensions. Unemployment is near 10 percent. 
Millions more Americans have just given up looking for a job. It's far 
past time that we stopped making it harder for businesses to hire and 
started providing real help through regulatory relief and targeted tax 
breaks. That would be a real jobs bill.

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