[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CREATING JOBS THROUGH COMMONSENSE SOLUTIONS

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, tonight the President is going to be 
addressing this Chamber, and the focus is going to be on jobs. Frankly, 
I hope that the President doesn't give us an instant replay of the 
first 2 years of his administration, where he tries to push more 
stimulus spending that didn't work, where he tries to push more 
bailouts to States that didn't work. What we need to focus on are 
commonsense solutions that can bring us all together that will actually 
be proven to create jobs.
  If you look at some of the legislation we've already passed out of 
the House, just to get our people back to work, exploring for American 
energy could create over 250,000 jobs. There are free trade agreements 
for Panama, Colombia, and South Korea sitting on the President's desk, 
trade agreements he has refused to act on, that would create over 
350,000 American jobs.
  There is bill after bill, but there is regulation after regulation 
that is holding back our ability to create jobs as you talk to small 
business owners across the country. The President even acknowledged 
when he rolled back the ozone standard that EPA is out of control.
  We've got to roll back these crazy regulations that are killing jobs 
as well. That's the solution to this problem that will get our economy 
back on track.

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