[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9305]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           A REAL, ACTIONABLE JOBS PLAN FOR AMERICA IS NEEDED

  (Mr. QUAYLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. QUAYLE. Mr. Speaker, earlier this week, President Obama made a 
joke about his so-called stimulus package. Remember those shovel-ready 
projects we heard so much about? They were one of the major selling 
points for the package. Well, the President now says they ``were not as 
shovel-ready as we expected.'' I am sure some got a good chuckle out of 
that line, but there is nothing funny about a $1 trillion failure.
  The economic policies this administration has pursued have failed to 
create jobs, and they have made matters worse for our economy. In many 
of our home States, the economic situation is bleaker than the national 
picture. In my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona, our unemployment rate is 
higher than the national average, and we have lost thousands of 
manufacturing and retail jobs over the last 2 years. We also have a 
housing market that has collapsed.
  Mr. Speaker, we will never get our economy growing again unless we 
see drastic improvements in unemployment and our housing sector. Our 
country is at our best when we unleash the ingenuity of the American 
people. The Republican Conference has a real and actionable jobs plan 
that will put America back to work, that will give our entrepreneurs 
and innovators freedom from the regulatory burdens and high taxes that 
are holding them back.
  We must take action to get this economy going again, and that is what 
our plan does. President Obama's speeches, policies, and council 
meetings are not enough.

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