[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            BIG GOVERNMENT IS THE TOP CONCERN FOR AMERICANS

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Some in this Chamber believe that the answer to our 
Nation's problems is more government, that we need more unchecked 
spending, more unelected bureaucrats, and more rules and regulation in 
our everyday lives.
  Yet, in a Gallup Poll just this week, 64 percent of Americans across 
the political spectrum responded that their biggest fear and the 
greatest threat to our country is Big Government. They've seen, just as 
I've seen, that burdensome rules and regulation and out-of-control 
spending and debt bring us nothing but high unemployment and an 
uncertain future for our kids and our grandkids.
  That's why the House Republicans have been working tirelessly this 
year to pass pro-growth, pro-jobs bills that will restore the 
confidence our Nation's job creators need to put Americans back to work 
again. Yet nearly 30 of these bills, which would restore reasonable 
regulation, reduce spending and create a smaller, less intrusive 
Federal Government, continue to languish over in the Senate, which 
still refuses to address the needs of unemployed Americans.
  We can't wait. Pass these jobs bills so that Americans can start 
working again and so that America can move forward.

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