[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            JOBS, JOBS, JOBS

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Madam Speaker, hardly a week goes by without this 
administration promulgating some new regulation that burdens the 
American people and our economy.
  This week it's an environmental regulation that will drive up energy 
costs. According to a report by the SBA, regulations cost $1.7 trillion 
annually. OMB has reported that regulations cost $62 billion annually.
  Regardless of which agency's number we believe, it doesn't matter. 
Both numbers are too high and hurt economic growth at a time when 
unemployment is too high.
  Let me make this real simple and settle this argument between these 
agencies. The cost of regulations is not simply a job, it's jobs, and 
every job has a human face.
  If more spending and more regulations meant more jobs, then this 
President's policies would have produced the strongest economic 
recovery in our Nation's history. Unfortunately, it's made things 
worse.

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