[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8675]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 PUTTING THE U.S. ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, just today we got the bad news again that 
the jobless numbers have gone up, that our unemployment numbers have 
gone up and that much smaller job increases were created than were 
expected.
  I think, as we continue to see unemployment going up over 9 percent--
9.1 percent now according to the latest numbers--it is very clear that 
the President's spending and borrowing agenda has been a dismal 
failure. Yet the President continues to go down that path.
  It is time for the President to start working with the House 
Republicans, who have sent jobs bill after jobs bill over to the 
Senate. For whatever reason, the President and the liberals in the 
Senate don't want to address the ability that we have presented to 
create jobs.
  One real clear example is in our State of Louisiana where we have 
lost over 13,000 jobs because of the President's policies, where they 
won't let our people get back to the work of drilling safely for energy 
in America.
  We don't want to get our energy from Brazil or from the Middle 
Eastern countries, many of whom don't like us and who use the billions 
we send to them to do us harm. We could keep that money here. We could 
keep those jobs here. There is a plan to do it. Plan after plan has 
been sent to the Senate, and for whatever reason, the Senate and the 
President continue to ignore them. Let's finally get our economy back 
on track.

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