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WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
Mr. BLUNT. Madam Speaker, I rise again today because southwest
Missourians keep telling me that they're expecting us to keep our eye
on the ball. The most important thing they want us working on in the
House is jobs--that's J-O-B-S, Madam Speaker. But most of the bills
we've considered here on the House floor have exactly the opposite
effect. Southwest Missourians know the difference
between good policies that put people back to work and the tax-raising,
job-killing agenda of the majority in Washington.
Madam Speaker, there is and has been a bipartisan resistance to this
extreme agenda, but the majority does whatever is necessary to pass
these bills. With government control of health care and the House-
passed national energy tax of cap-and-trade, costs go up and jobs go
down. Despite promises that the $862 billion so-called stimulus bill
would keep unemployment below 8 percent, here we are today, Madam
Speaker, with an unemployment rate of over 9 percent per month.
Our top priority must be job creation. The government can't create
private sector jobs, but it sure can pursue smart policies that help
create those jobs.