[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10697]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           ECONOMIC RECOVERY

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I think it's time for a little bit of 
a history lesson.
  Before President Obama even got into office, that first January, we 
were losing almost 800,000 jobs a month; the stock market was at 6,000, 
and the Republican policies had all been implemented on energy, on 
health care, on budget, on foreign policy, with tax cuts for the 
wealthiest, with borrowing the money, and with running our country and 
our economy off the cliff.
  We are turning the country around. We now have positive job growth. 
The stock market went up to 11,000 and now up past 10,000. 401(k)s are 
returning. Jobs are coming back. We do not need to go backwards with 
the Republican economic policies that drove us off the cliff in the 
first place.
  I ask my friends on the other side, Mr. Speaker:
  What are you going to tell the police officers, the firefighters, and 
the teachers who will get laid off if this country doesn't step up to 
bat and reinvest back in America? What are you going to tell them? What 
are you going to tell them?
  We have enough money for the wealthiest to get tax breaks, but we 
don't have enough money for police, for firefighters, and for road 
projects in the United States.
  Good luck.

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