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Calling For A Stimulus Audit

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 9, 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Government Budget and Spending

Calling For A Stimulus Audit

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, American taxpayers deserve an audit of stimulus funds. Taxpayers have faced weeks of fake jobs in fake districts posted on recovery.gov. We have heard the Government Accountability Office announcement that one in 10 jobs are fake. Action must be taken.

I have introduced the National Commission on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create a bipartisan commission to investigate how many jobs have actually been saved or created by the Recovery Act. The commission will look at the circumstances in which these jobs have been saved or created. The commission will make recommendations on what works to save or create more jobs and what steps can be made to prevent the improper spending of taxpayer dollars, such as The Hill's front page disclosure today of a Democrat pollster receiving $6 million to preserve three jobs.

In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.


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