mr. defazio: would the gentleman yield? i expressed my outrage. mr. shuster: there is more than just one of you. you should have stood up and said right there and right there as i did to the former chairman, this is going to mess up a long-range highway bill. they are going to take that money and squander it. we could have done half of a stimulus bill, half of a stimulus bill, put most of the money into the infrastructure of this country and we wouldn't be sitting here today. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlemen are reminded to address remarks to the chair. mr. shuster: thank you, mr. chairman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may continue. mr. shuster: thank you, mr. speaker. let's move forward with a bill that's within our means. once again i want to remind my friends on the other side, you had both bodies in the white house for two years. where was the bill? there was no bill. where were the jobs? there are no jobs. i just remind my colleagues, we are borrowing 40 cents on every dollar this government spends. we have to live within our mean

mr. defazio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for one minute. mr. defazio: well, i don't mean to contradict my colleague but the republicans do have a jobs plan. it's true that majority leader canton kicked off the week by saying not a penny for infrastructure. we don't want to just build things in america. we don't want to invest. that doesn't put people to work. you know, the $50 billion the president proposed, that would create about 1.5 million private sector jobs in the construction industry but they are not interested in that. they do have a jobs plan. snakes. yes, snakes. yesterday in the oversight committee they held a hearing similar to what we're talking about today on a job-killing regulation being proposed by the obama administration. keep out invasive species. giant pythons which are taking over the everglades, the republicans say that is a job-killing restriction. just think of all the jobs related to snakes. first, the importer of these invasive species. second, you know, there's -- we sell them. then there are people who raise things

mr. defazio, for five minutes. mr. defazio: well, i was initially very supportive of the president's proposed buffett taxed based on the premise that no millionaire or billionaire should pay a lower tax rate than a checkout clerk at the albertson's supermarket or a small business owner that only earns $40,000 a year. seemed fair to me. but then i started listening to the republican response. it's pretty heavy. it really gives you pause to think whether or not this is a good idea for our country. it's class warfare. it will hurt job creation. you know, these are arguments -- it won't raise money. these are arguments that is certainly very telling. in fact, i have some direct quotes from one representative. this is really the dr. kevorkian plan for our economy. it will kill jobs, kill businesses, yes, even kill the higher tax revenues. the suicidal tax increasers hope to gain. and another representative. class warfare may win political campaigns but it doesn't spur economic growth, raising the capital gains tax rate may g

mr. defazio, for five minutes. . mr. defazio: well, we have the economy, the tax cuts will give us. eight years of bush tax cuts. two years of bush-obama tax cuts. and now the individual obama tax cut proposals. $5 trillion borrowed, discontributed generally with the bush tax cuts, principally to the job creators, as republicans call them, millionaires and billionaires. and in little bits to working americans. it's not working. so why would we do more of the same? apparently the president tonight is going to propose, again, to extend the social security tax holiday. two things wrong with that. maybe three. one is it's not putting anybody back to work. two, we borrowed $110 billion this year to put into the social security trust fund because we cut the income of social security by $110 billion. and now we're being told to perhaps double down. let's give both employers and employees a little bit of a social security tax holiday. $20 a week to someone who earns $50,000 a year. not bad. they can use it. probably about the difference they pay for filling up their car to get to work. but