[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10691-10692]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PUT PEOPLE TO WORK

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. Mr. Speaker, we just heard a very interesting 1-minute 
presentation that didn't make much

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sense. We have a world of hurt. People are unemployed. People are going 
to lose their jobs in local governments and State governments, and 
teachers are going to be laid off across this Nation. And to simply say 
we need fiscal discipline doesn't solve this problem.
  The Democrats put out, without one Republican vote, an American 
Recovery Act a little more than a year ago, and it really worked. 
People did get jobs. Things were done. Infrastructure was built. We 
need to continue that, and we need to keep people working.
  Yes, we need fiscal discipline, and I would be welcoming any idea 
from the Republicans on how they are going to do that other than simply 
say there ought to be. Yes, there ought to be, but we need right now to 
put people to work.
  There is a program that's available that will be coming up that will 
stimulate small businesses. It puts forward major programs for the 
Small Business Administration to support loans. We also need to support 
the local governments. Yes, it's going to cost us some money in the 
short term, but we have a choice: We are either going to put people to 
work or we are going to have welfare. I want people to work. I want 
them to be taxpayers.

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