[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 8012-8013]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. STEWART asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEWART. Mr. Speaker, I am honored to represent the great State 
of

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Utah and Salt Lake City. Forbes Magazine recently rated Utah as the 
best State in the Nation for business and careers. Salt Lake City was 
recently ranked as the best city in the country for new graduates.
  But while the State of Utah is doing very well, the rest of our 
Nation is not. As a small business owner, I know that government does 
not create jobs; the private sector creates jobs. And businessmen all 
over this Nation are asking--no, they're even begging--for one thing: 
Get government out of the way. Allow our economy to grow. Create new 
American jobs. Expand opportunity; don't expand government.
  There are, right now, 4.4 million Americans that have been jobless 
for more than 6 months, and this is completely unacceptable.
  We must simplify our Tax Code. We need to become energy independent. 
We need to move forward with projects such as the Keystone pipeline. We 
need to reform health care and entitlement programs, which account for 
the vast majority of our deficit and debt spending.
  Americans deserve better. We can do better.

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