Congressman Geoff Davis : Serving Kentucky's Fourth District

Washington, Nov 6, 2009 - Today, Congressman Geoff Davis released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor reported that the nation’s economy lost 190,000 jobs in the month of October and the national unemployment rate rose from 9.8 percent to 10.2 percent:

“For months, the American public has asked Congress to focus on policies that will encourage job creation and speed our economic recovery, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Majority remains determined to make it more expensive to do business in the U.S.  

“From the so-called ‘stimulus’ bill and the flawed national energy tax to the misguided attempt to enact a government takeover of our health care system, the Democrat Majority’s agenda has a central theme: making it more complicated and more expensive to create new job opportunities in America. 

“The latest unemployment numbers reaffirm that out of control spending, higher taxes and government expansion are nothing short of detrimental to our economy.
“It is past time to rein in Congress and bring fiscal responsibility back to Washington, and we can start by getting rid of Speaker Pelosi’s trillion-dollar health care legislation.  Her bill contains $750 billion in new taxes and could cause an estimated 5.5 million more Americans to lose their jobs. 

“Instead of a government takeover of health care, we need to focus on crafting legislation that will provide tax relief for working families and small businesses and put our economy back on the path to economic recovery.”