[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16078]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HOUSE REPUBLICAN JOBS PLAN

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, it's time for the President to get 
a grip on reality. He obviously doesn't understand the unemployment 
crisis that's crippling America.
  The President says that he hasn't seen the House Republican jobs 
plan. Well, here it is. It's been out since May, and it's available at 
jobs.gop.gov. Now, maybe the White House is having an Internet problem.
  I'm proud to join Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings 
in recommending plans to the supercommittee that create jobs right here 
in America while at the same time reducing the deficit, ideas like 
increasing onshore and offshore energy production. Increasing offshore 
energy production will create over 1 million new jobs alone and would 
generate billions in new Federal revenue. But President Obama would 
rather make bad bets on green companies like Solyndra, wasting hard-
earned taxpayer dollars.
  House Republicans have passed jobs bill after jobs bill--they're 
stacked up like cordwood on the Senate floor--but Senator Reid and 
President Obama refuse to consider them. The American people deserve 
better. President Obama's ideologically driven, job-killing policies 
are hurting America.

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