[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10662]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR JOB CREATION

  (Mr. PAULSEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Speaker, you can hardly turn on the television or 
the radio these days without hearing about our Nation's debt crisis. 
And the reason we find ourselves in this crisis is not because 
Washington taxes too little. Rather, it is because Washington spends 
too much. Raising taxes on America's job creators, as some here in 
Washington suggest, is not the answer. It won't open closed factories. 
It won't stimulate the economy. And it won't put our friends and 
neighbors back to work.
  What we need, and what the American people are asking us to do, is to 
see that government lives within its means. Over the past few years, 
hardworking Americans across this country have tightened their belts 
and lived within their means and cut back on spending. And there's no 
reason that their government can't do the same thing. It's often been 
said that it's not in the Federal Government's nature to shrink. And I 
think here in Washington our colleagues should work to prove them wrong 
by ending wasteful Washington spending as a way to address our Nation's 
budget deficit.

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