I thank the ranking member for yielding. The American people are hurting. In the city and on the farm, families are struggling in the midst of the worst recession in 25 years. Coming home to me especially today, Madam Speaker, because at this very hour more than a thousand Hoosiers are gathered at a job fair in my district. Some 65 companies have come together with a few cherished openings. My duty is here. But to be honest with you, I would rather be there, standing with those courageous Hoosiers who have come out, put on their Sunday best, and are reaching for a better future. Congress ought to be taking action; but not this, not more of the same. Here we go again. Another jobs bill, another bailout. Washington, DC now after a year and a half of failed economic policies, a stimulus and borrowing and spending and bailouts and takeovers, says we need to do another jobs bill, so let's do another bailout: $26 billion to States, putting off the hard decisions that States ought to be making, and paying for it with more than $9 billion in tax increases. You know, the American people are fed up with more taxes, more bailouts, more wasteful stimulus; yet here we go again. More spending, more bailouts and more taxes won't mean more jobs. Millions of Americans are asking: Where will it all end?…
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