[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4831]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       JOB-KILLING SPENDING PLAN

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, private sector employment went up by 200,000 
people this month. But unemployment remains stubbornly high. A 
principle reason for this is the job cuts in the public sector. This 
past month, public sector jobs were lost at an annual rate of a quarter 
million people. These people also have mortgages to pay, college kids 
to educate, car payments to make, and the like. They matter to our 
economy.
  Over the last 2 years, more than 200,000 teachers have been laid off, 
while student enrollment has increased by 750,000. We're told that H.R. 
1 would eliminate another 9,000 teacher jobs. In Detroit, classroom 
size has gone up to 60 students per classroom in middle school, the 
toughest years to maintain discipline and enhanced knowledge. Now we're 
told we may have a compromise on H.R. 1 that will cut only 300,000--not 
700,000--public sector jobs.
  It's inconsistent at best, hypocritical at worst, for the Republican 
majority in this House to suggest they care about jobs while at the 
same time they're eliminating hundreds of thousands of them.

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