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Date: July 21, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Employment and Affirmative Action Government Budget and Spending


JOBS -- (House of Representatives - July 21, 2009)

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Mr. BROUN of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because I want someone to show me the jobs that we have been promised by the Democrats. Many counties in my district have unemployment rates of more than 13 percent.

Show me the jobs, Mr. Speaker. My colleagues on the Democratic side of the aisle promised that their trillion-dollar stimulus would immediately create jobs and unemployment would not rise above 8 percent. Nothing could be further from the truth. In June alone, almost half a million jobs were lost, driving unemployment to its highest level in 26 years.

Now, after shoving a $646 billion energy tax down the throats of the American people, liberal leadership is now shoving a multitrillion-dollar health experiment. According to the CBO, this will cost 750,000 more jobs and push 100 million Americans off of their private health care plans.

Mr. Speaker, I ask you to show me the jobs and show me why the American people should believe once again that a trillion-dollar experiment will work.

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