[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  EXPRESSING DEEP CONCERN OVER THE PRESIDENT'S STANCE ON JOB CREATION

  (Mr. RIGELL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGELL. Mr. Speaker, recently the President said this about our 
most recent new jobs numbers that were greatly disappointing: ``People 
and the markets are still skittish and nervous, and so they pull back 
because they're still thinking about the traumas of just 2\1/2\ years 
ago.''
  Mr. Speaker, I want the President to know that American entrepreneurs 
and job creators are not looking to the past. Entrepreneurs and job 
creators by their very nature are looking to the future, and all they 
see, Mr. Speaker, is the perfect storm of uncertainty based on the 
President's fiscal policies: They see an EPA that is a hindrance--not a 
partner--in job creation; they see a nationalized health care that's 
creating uncertainty about health care costs and where that's going; 
they see a mountain of debt that continues to grow each and every day; 
and they see local bankers who aren't hiring local account executives 
to reach out to small business owners, but they're hiring those account 
executives to go out and look at regulations that are just continuing 
to pour down on our small banks.
  Thomas Friedman wrote this in the New York Times this weekend; he 
said: The epidemic of uncertainty is one of the principal problems 
undermining U.S. job growth today.
  We can do better, Mr. Speaker. Let's support and unlock the greatest 
job-producing engine the world has ever known: the American small 
business owner.

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