[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 17335-17336]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  INCREASING JOBS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I think there are three things that we 
need to do in America in order to increase jobs and economic growth.
  Number one, we've got to drill our own oil. If you drive a car or if 
you use

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goods and services that come to you by a vehicle using an internal 
combustion engine, somebody had to drill for that gas. Now, do you 
really believe that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and Libya are more 
environmentally sensitive than we are? Of course not. We can do it in 
an environmentally sensitive way and become oil independent.
  Secondly, we need to have tax simplification. I'm outraged when I 
hear about people not paying their fair share of taxes. We need to have 
a Tax Code that is a half-an-inch deep and miles and miles wide so that 
everybody is paying their fair share.
  Then, thirdly, we need to change the regulatory environment. 
Regulators don't need to approach businesses with an ``I gotcha. I'm 
against you'' attitude, but as more of a partnership--``Hey, we want to 
work with you on worker safety and environmental protection and product 
liability laws''--and things like this so that we can work for business 
and nurture responsible corporate citizenship.
  I think we can do that, and that will increase our jobs and our 
economic growth.

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