this was not going to happen if we voted for that great big porkulous bill. when you say $787 billion, that's more than my paycheck. how much is that? how much money is that? and the biggest thing we deal with on my committee is aircraft carriers. they are big things. you could play a game of football on the deck. they are really big and cost a ton of money. we have 11 in our total fleet and cost about $3 billion a piece. if you look what happened to us in the first five weeks after we have been told that president bush is spending way too much money, we put this bill in place, this was the trimmed down version. on this floor we voted for $870 billion. that would be over 250 aircraft carriers anchored end to end. you could make a highway across them. that is how much money that is in this package alone. that's not the wall street bailout and that's -- this appropriations bill -- that's not the international monetary bailout. we're going to take defense money and give it to foreign countries and put it in a fund so chavez and the iranians and other people can

the nonstimulus as you call it, porkulous bill, i call it the nonstimulus stimulus bill, we offered alternatives. the leadership in this house were obstructionists and wouldn't allow us to have an open hearing and discuss it. the omnibus appropriations, we had alternatives. we've had alternatives for all this. they call us the party of no, n-o. really we're the paret of know, k-n-o-w. we know how to stimulate the economy, we know how to create jobs, give money back in ways to create an environment where small business can create jobs. as the gentleman from missouri so aptly told us just a few minutes ago, small business is where those jobs were created. about 85% of them. . this tax and cap legislation has been estimated it's going to cost america somewhere between $1.7. in my district of northeast georgia, we have in multiple counties, 14% unemployment. mr. akin: millions of job loss as a result of this new tax that's being proposed here. i would like to recognize another doctor who has joined us. we have doctors out there tonight and my good friend, dr. burgess. what we have been talking about