[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16327]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TURN THIS ECONOMY AROUND

  (Mr. FLEMING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. FLEMING. Mr. Speaker, since early 2009, there have consistently 
been at least 13.5 million Americans unemployed. Every month for more 
than 2\1/2\ years, millions of people have been looking for full-time 
jobs, and they have been waiting. They waited through months of debate 
over a health care bill that will cost jobs. They waited through a 
financial services bill that will cost jobs. They waited through 
bailouts and stimulus bills and debates over raising taxes, all of 
which will cost jobs. They waited while the House passed 15 big job-
creating bills. Now the President says, We can't wait; I must go it 
alone.
  Mr. Speaker, that's why Republicans have passed the many bills to 
help this country's job creators, bills to lessen the regulatory burden 
on businesses, to encourage domestic energy production, and to halt the 
spending spree in Washington that robs money from the job creators. Now 
the President and the Democrat-controlled Senate need to finally act on 
many of those bills that we have already passed and that will turn this 
economy around. We ask that you act immediately.

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