[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 623]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                USING AMERICAN RESOURCES TO CREATE JOBS

  (Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, tonight we will hear about 
the State of the Union. I hope we hear the sometimes painful truth 
about the State of the Union: more jobs lost in the last couple of 
years and we need to do something about that.
  But the answer is not more spending that leads us to a greater 
deficit and more borrowing from China. The answer is not to continue to 
have higher gas prices because we are buying our oil from OPEC, which 
they use to build their lavish palaces and drive their Rolls Royces 
while our communities are trying to find ways to afford the patching 
compound to patch up our potholes. What we need to be doing is taking 
action that uses our resources to create American jobs.
  A bill that I am going to be reintroducing from last year is one that 
says, Let's stop this moratorium that prevents us from using our oil, 
from drilling our resources. We can actually create jobs and have about 
$3 trillion-plus in Federal revenue without raising taxes, without 
raising our trade deficit, and without sending more money to OPEC.
  I hope this is something this Congress considers and this President 
has an open mind to dealing with so that we can create jobs without 
creating more deficit.

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