House Proceeding 12-03-09 on Dec 3rd, 2009 :: 2:07:50 to 2:11:15
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Speech By: Steve Scalise

2:07:45 to 2:08:05( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: money, money we don't have, claiming we need to do this be unemployment from reaching 8% and it was going to create three million job, and then he said he stood right behind you here on this house floor, right at that podium i'm lookinat right there, president obama said, we're going

2:08:06 to 2:08:28( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: joe biden will be in charge of tracking every dime because nobody messes with joe. that's what the president says. nobody. so, of course we decided to take president obama up on his claims months and months later after they came with budge that doubled the national debt in five years and turned around with another bill, the cap and

2:08:29 to 2:08:49( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: trade energy tax and national tax on energy, then they came back with this government takeover of health care they're still pursuing, all of this, running jobs out of our country at a time when americans want us to be creating jobs. exceed 10%, people are not only asking, where are the job,

2:08:50 to 2:09:10( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: they say, what did you do with the money you spent? what we found out is, as you were talking about we found out that in louisiana, there were more jobs created in louisiana's eighth congressional district, according to the white house, by the stimulus bill than were created in my first congressional district i represent. if you lived in the eighth congressional district and

2:09:11 to 2:09:33( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: you're hearing all these jobs were created with taxpayer money we don't have, you might be going, wow, i want to see what those jobs were. people in louisiana know there's no eighth congressional district because we have seven congressional district, so we dug deeper and found out there were 15 different congressional distri were claiming they created jobs

2:09:34 to 2:09:55( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: in using stimulus money. mr. lden: so do you think someone made a joke? mr. scalise: in fact, our local newspaper did digging and they called the white house and said, ok, white house, you're claiming off -- you have this transparency, how is it you can have jobs being shn that you are creating in

2:09:56 to 2:10:16( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: and the first thing the white house said is we're not certi information. so first in january they were going to be the most transparent administration ever. now, 10 months later billions and billions of dollars of borrowed money going out the door, no one knows what it was spent on in districts that don

2:10:17 to 2:10:38( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: we are not certifyinghe accuracy of the information. mr. scalise: i thought nobody was going to get -- mr. walden: i thought nobody was going to get past joe? mr. scalise: well, theyay, how is it that somebody can show a district that d exist on your website as creating jobs?

2:10:39 to 2:10:59( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: and the white house spokesperson's answer was, who knows, man, who really that's his direct quote. that's the best the white house can come up with as the american people are saying, where's the jobs and wha y'all doing with th their answer is, who knows, man, who really knows.

2:11:00 to 2:11:05( Edit History Discussion )

Steve Scalise: and then we go to president obama. february 24 on the house floor, his quote, because nobody messes with joe.

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Greg Walden: and here we have a picture of vice president joe biden with the white house state dinner just a week or so ago. and you wonder why nobody is manning the story, no one is taking accountability now, these are people manning the store and people are saying enough is enough. this is not a joke because the