[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17552]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              POLLUTING AIR AND WATER WILL NOT CREATE JOBS

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Madam Speaker, under pressure from the American people, 
the Republican majority in this House is running around with 15 or 20 
bills that they claim to be jobs bills which, of course, they are not. 
If you look at them, you will see that they are bills that allow 
polluters to dirty our waters and to fill our air with toxins.
  Now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which actually studies this 
stuff, asks employers, Why are you not hiring? Why have you gotten rid 
of people? Nowhere in those answers do we hear the words ``too much 
regulation.'' It's a canard. Bruce Bartlett, conservative economist and 
member of the Reagan administration, said that the Republican Party is 
taking advantage of the need for jobs to push a deregulatory agenda.
  It is time to get serious about jobs and not try to fool the American 
people that filling our water with toxins and making our air polluted 
is somehow good for this country or good for jobs.

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