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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Date: July 21, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Economy and Fiscal

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Mr. SMITH of Nebraska. Mr. Speaker, we were told a $1 trillion stimulus package would create jobs immediately. But since then, nearly 2 million Americans have lost their jobs, and unemployment is at 9.5 percent, the highest in 26 years. Then the House passed cap-and-trade legislation which will cost our country 2.5 million jobs each year. Now we're rushing to take up the Democrats' health care bill, which research shows will cost 4.7 million more jobs.

As House Republicans offer plans and ideas to get our economy moving again, all we get in return is more of the same, spending and taxing, and it keeps yielding the very same results: Longer unemployment lines and a longer list of promises.

Mr. Speaker, we need new ideas and new approaches to deliver different results.

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