[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13602]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     COMMONSENSE SOLUTIONS FOR JOBS

  (Mr. FLORES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. FLORES. Madam Speaker, our country is facing record deficits, 
high unemployment, and stagnant economic growth. Yet President Obama is 
doubling down on the triple threat of taxation, regulation, and 
spending that is crushing job growth. This week, the President has been 
touting his so-called ``jobs plan.'' But his detrimental policies have 
forced a power generation company in Texas to close five facilities and 
sacrifice 500 middle class jobs. The impact of this EPA shutdown will 
reduce generating capacity in Texas by 1,300 megawatts, a move which 
the Electric Reliability Council of Texas says could spur future power 
outages.
  These regulations hurt middle class jobs and harm electric 
reliability in Texas with no scientific evidence that power generation 
in Texas is causing nonattainment of clear air standards in other 
States. Not only are this administration's disastrous policies 
preventing future job creation; they're destroying existing jobs. 
Instead of proposing the same failed idea that Washington can create 
jobs, we need to get Washington out of the way and rely on commonsense 
Main Street solutions that put Americans back to work.

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