[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         AMERICA'S JOBLESSNESS

  (Mr. ROGERS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, this country has a real problem 
with jobs, or the lack of jobs, and our economy. It's what we in the 
Congress need to be debating solutions to resolve. Instead, we're 
having to argue with the President about our debt ceiling.
  The President is refusing to cut spending that every American knows 
we have to do unless he gets tax increases. And he's threatening to 
withhold Social Security checks from seniors to get his way. I think 
that's shameful, and he's going to have to answer for that one day. But 
right now, we've got a solution in the House, the Republicans do, 
called Cut, Cap, and Balance, that will limit spending to a level that 
we can afford in a responsible way without new taxes.
  We're urging the President to do something big. He says he wants to 
do something big about our debt problem. This is the solution. We urge 
him to work with us and not demand new taxes. And once he will do that, 
we can turn to some meaningful things that will help improve the job 
situation, which, by the way, is at 9.2 percent unemployment and going 
in the wrong direction. We can do some things, like getting the 
regulators off our community banks so that small businesses can have 
access to capital, and shrinking the size of EPA and OSHA and NLRB, 
which are bloated in their infrastructure and are just stifling jobs in 
America. We have a lot of things we can do. But first, we've got to get 
our spending under control.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for Cut, Cap, and Balance.

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